| Saluting the Flag, | [Frontispiece] |
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| The Mott Street Barracks, | [16] |
| An Italian Home under a Dump, | [25] |
| A Child of the Dump, | [28] |
| Pietro Learning to Make an Englis’ Letter, | [32] |
| “Slept in the Cellar Four Years,” | [41] |
| A Synagogue School in a Hester Street Tenement, | [46] |
| The Backstairs to Learning, | [48] |
| Class of Melammedim Learning English, | [50] |
| “I Scrubs.”—Katie who Keeps House in West Forty-ninth Street, | [61] |
| Present Tenants of John Ericsson’s Old House, now the Beach Street Industrial School, | [73] |
| Their Playground a Truck, | [86] |
| Shine, Sir? | [100] |
| Little Susie at her Work, | [110] |
| Minding the Baby, | [114] |
| “Shooting Craps” in the Hall of the Newsboys’ Lodging House, | [122] |
| Case No. 25,745 on the Society’s Blotter, Before and After, | [146] |
| Club Used for Beating a Child, | [152] |
| Summer Boarders from Mott Street, | [158] |
| Making for the “Big Water,” | [167] |
| Floating Hospital—St. John’s Guild, | [169] |
| Playing at Housekeeping, | [177] |
| Poverty Gappers Playing Coney Island, | [183] |
| Poverty Gap Transformed—the Spot where Young Healey was murdered is now a Playground, | [185] |
| The Late Charles Loring Brace, Founder of the Children’s Aid Society, | [188] |
| The First Patriotic Election in the Beach Street Industrial School—Parlor in John Ericsson’s Old House, | [201] |
| The Board of Election Inspectors in the Beach Street School, | [207] |
| The Plumbing Shop in the New York Trade Schools, | [212] |
| A Boys’ Club Reading room, | [222] |
| The Carpenter Shop in the Avenue C Working Boys’ Club, | [226] |
| Type-setting at the Avenue C Working Boys’ Club, | [231] |
| A Bout with the Gloves in the Boys’ Club of Calvary Parish, | [235] |
| Lining up for the Gymnasium, | [240] |
| A Snug Corner on a Cold Night, | [246] |
| 2 A.M. in the Delivery-room in the “Sun” Office, | [261] |
| Buffalo, | [264] |
| Night School in the West Side Lodging-house.—Edward, the Little Pedlar, Caught Napping, | [265] |
| The “Soup-House Gang,” Class in History in the Duane Street Newsboy’s Lodging-house, | [269] |