Jacob August Riis, American, born Denmark, Ribe, Denmark, 1849-1914, Barre, Massachusetts, Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement--"Five Cents a Spot", 1889
Group of immigrants sitting in a tenement house similar to the last one
New York Tribune, The Immigrant Rate War. Commissioner Fink's Statement. Rival Roads Busy At Castle Garden--Success Of; Article Type: News/Opinion, 04-24-1888
seems that they made a new law to make it harder to discriminate against immigrants traveling