BIG CITY

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BIG CITY

• A Childs Story

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Small pox devastation of Native American
populations.
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The huddled masses.
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Sketches and photograph by Jacob Riis, from How
the Other Half Lives.
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Sketches and photograph by Jacob Riis, from How
the Other Half Lives.
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Men pack together for construction work.
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Photographs by Jacob Riis, from How the Other
Half Lives.
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Old American Families
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Italian and Russian Second-Wave Immigrants.
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Photograph by Jacob Riis, from How the Other Half
Lives.
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From How the Other Half Lives.
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Photography of an orphanage by Jacob Riis, from
How the Other Half Lives.
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Sketches by Jacob Riis, from How the Other Half
Lives.
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Sugar production . . .
. . . and consumption
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Harper's Weekly, 16 Sept. 1871
Political cartoon by Thomas Nast
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Photography by Jacob Riis, from How the Other
Half Lives.
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12-year-old George Page, arrested for vagrant
wandering abroad, having no visible means of
subsistence, sentenced to 5 years in a
reformatory
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Picking oakum at Coldbath Fields Prison, 1884
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California Freeway (left) Levittown, NY
(1947)Dolores Hayden Collection
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Mulberry Street, NYC, ca. 1900
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Black family, Savannah, Ga (1907)
Slave with iron muzzle.
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Pruit-Igoe housing development, 1954
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Demolition of Pruit-Igoe housing development, 1974
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To Be Continued . . .