| Gotham Court, | [Frontispiece] |
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| Hell’s Kitchen and Sebastopol, | [6] |
| Tenement of 1863, for Twelve Families on Each Flat, | [12] |
| Tenement of the Old Style. Birth of the Air-shaft | [18] |
| At the Cradle of the Tenement.—Doorway of an Old-fashioned Dwelling on Cherry Hill, | [30] |
| Upstairs in Blindman’s Alley, | [34] |
| An Old Rear-tenement in Roosevelt Street, | [45] |
| In the Home of an Italian Rag-picker, Jersey Street, | [51] |
| The Bend, | [59] |
| Bandits’ Roost, | [63] |
| Bottle Alley, | [66] |
| Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement—“Five Cents a Spot,” | [69] |
| An All-night Two-cent Restaurant, in “The Bend,” | [75] |
| The Tramp, | [79] |
| Bunks in a Seven-cent Lodging-house, Pell Street, | [87] |
| In a Chinese Joint, | [98] |
| “The Official Organ of Chinatown,” | [100] |
| A Tramp’s Nest in Ludlow Street, | [106] |
| A Market Scene in the Jewish Quarter, | [111] |
| The Old Clo’e’s Man—in the Jewish Quarters, | [117] |
| “Knee-pants” at Forty-five Cents a Dozen—A Ludlow Street Sweater’s Shop, | [127] |
| Bohemian Cigarmakers at Work in their Tenement, | [143] |
| A Black-and-tan Dive in “Africa,”, | [157] |
| The Open Door, | [160] |
| Bird’s-eye View of an East Side Tenement Block, | [163] |
| The White Badge of Mourning, | [166] |
| In Poverty Gap, West Twenty-eighth Street. An English Coal-heaver’s Home, | [169] |
| Dispossessed, | [176] |
| The Trench in the Potter’s Field, | [178] |
| Prayer-time in the Nursery—Five Points House of Industry, | [195] |
| “Didn’t Live Nowhere”, | [200] |
| Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters, | [202] |
| Getting Ready for Supper in the Newsboys’ Lodging-house, | [205] |
| A Downtown “Morgue,” | [214] |
| A Growler Gang in Session, | [223] |
| Typical Toughs (from the Rogues’ Gallery), | [228] |
| Hunting River Thieves, | [231] |
| Sewing and Starving in an Elizabeth Street Attic, | [238] |
| A Flat in the Pauper Barracks, West Thirty-eighth Street, with all its Furniture, | [245] |
| Coffee at One Cent, | [252] |
| Evolution of the Tenement in Twenty Years, | [269] |
| General Plan of the Riverside Buildings (A. T. White’s) in Brooklyn, | [292] |
| Floor Plan of One Division in the Riverside Buildings, Showing Six “Apartments,” | [293] |
“With gates of silver and bars of gold
Ye have fenced my sheep from their father’s fold;
I have heard the dropping of their tears
In heaven these eighteen hundred years.”
“O Lord and Master, not ours the guilt,
We build but as our fathers built;
Behold thine images, how they stand,
Sovereign and sole, through all our land.”