Children of the Tenements
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148
1903
English
- Preface
- The Rent Baby
- A Story of Bleeker Street
- The Kid Hangs Up His Stocking
- The Slipper-Maker's Fast
- Death Comes to Cat Alley
- A Proposal on the Elevated
- Little Will's Message
- Lost Children
- Paolo's Awakening
- The Little Dollar's Christmas Journey
- The Kid
- When the Letter Came
- The Cat Took the Kosher Meat
- Nibsy's Christmas
- In the Children's Hospital
- Nigger Martha's Wake
- What the Christmas Sun Saw in the Tenements
- Midwinter in New York
- A Chip from the Maelstrom
- Sarah Joyce's Husbands
- Merry Christmas in the Tenements
- Abe's Game of Jacks
- A Little Picture
- A Dream of the Woods
- Twas 'Liza's Doings
- Heroes Who Fight Fire
- John Gavin, Misfit
- A Heathen Baby
- The Christening in Bottle Alley
- In the Mulberry Street Court
- Difficulties of a Deacon
- Fire in the Barracks
- War on the Goats
- He Kept His Tryst
- Rover's Last Fight
- How Jim Went to the War
- A Backwoods Hero
- Jack's Sermon
- Skippy of Scrabble Alley
- Making a Way Out of the Slum
This is a collection of vignettes about poverty in New York City in the early 1900s. Jacob Riis was a police reporter and a sociologist. He made human the faces of extreme poverty and did not limit his often-wrenching prose to children. He included old people and animals, and described diverse cultures. These stories evoke both laughter and tears.
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