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"Lodgers in a crowded Bayard Street tenement"
Lodgers in a boarding room on New York's Bayard Street charging "five cents a spot" exemplify the overcrowded, frequently squalid living conditions that immigrants in New York City faced at the turn of the twentieth century. As documented in Jacob [...]
Tags: Progressivism
Item Type: Photograph
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
"Tenement, New York City, 1910"
This photograph by Lewis Hine was taken in a New York City tenement in 1910. Hine was a documentary photographer who frequently turned his lens to the plight of immigrants, workers, and the poor. This family group, perhaps among the approximately [...]
Item Type: Photograph
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)