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BIG CITYBIG CITYBIG CITYBIG CITY

A Child’s 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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Slave with iron muzzle.

Black family, Savannah, Ga (1907)

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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 . . . To Be Continued . . . To Be Continued . . . To Be Continued . . .