Jacob Riis 1900 New York City - from our story 'A Slum City For Slum People: Jacob Riis’ Photos Of New York’s Other Half (1890)'

Children in "The Ship," destroyed by B. of Health in 1897, after the visit of Roosevelt & myself [Jacob A. Riis] there. DATE:1895 Four children at a table, eating, in a tenement building known as "The Ship" on Hamilton Street.

Children in "The Ship," destroyed by B. of Health in 1897, after the visit of Roosevelt & myself [Jacob A. Riis] there. DATE:1895 Four children at a table, eating, in a tenement building known as "The Ship" on Hamilton Street.

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