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New York Herald, A Home for Immigrant Girls Father Riordan's Successor at Castle Garden Makes an Appeal, 12-25-1887

basically, a new priest is getting appointed and he's saying how the previous priest did so well with the immigrants and how we need to keep that up

Tags: being nice, immigrant, manhattan, religion

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914), In Poverty Gap, West Twenty-Eighth St. An English Coal-Heaver's Home., ca. 1890

Picture of a family in supplemental housing

Tags: immigrant, manhattan, poverty