Ragpickers Row

Photographer: Jacob Riis

1890

Source: How the Other Half Lives via museumsyndicate.com

This photograph is Figure 44 in Lionel Gossman’s “Clyde-built: Thomas Annan’s The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow.”

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Another photograph by Riis

Bibliography

Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, with Illustrations chiefly from Photographs taken by the Author. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890.

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