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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

Tags: manhattan, poverty, tenement housing

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