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List of Illustrations

  1. Hell’s Kitchen and Sebastopol.

  2. Gotham Court.

  3. Tenement of 1863, for twelve families on each flat.

  4. Tenement of the old style. Birth of the air-shaft.

  5. At the cradle of the tenement.⁠—Doorway of an old-fashioned dwelling on Cherry Hill.

  6. Upstairs in Blindman’s Alley.

  7. An old rear-tenement in Roosevelt Street.

  8. In the home of an Italian ragpicker, Jersey Street.

  9. The Bend.

  10. Bandits’ Roost.

  11. Bottle Alley.

  12. Lodgers in a crowded Bayard Street Tenement⁠—“Five cents a spot.”

  13. An all-night two-cent restaurant, in “The Bend.”

  14. The tramp.

  15. Bunks in a seven-cent lodging-house, Pell Street.

  16. In a Chinese joint.

  17. “The official organ of Chinatown.”

  18. A tramp’s nest in Ludlow Street.

  19. A market scene in the Jewish Quarter.

  20. The old clo’e’s man⁠—in the Jewish Quarters.

  21. “Knee-pants” at forty-five cents a dozen⁠—a Ludlow Street sweater’s shop.

  22. Bohemian cigarmakers at work in their tenement.

  23. A black-and-tan dive in “Africa.”

  24. The open door.

  25. Bird’s-eye view of an east side tenement block. (From a drawing by Charles F. Wingate, Esq.)

  26. The white badge of mourning.

  27. In Poverty Gap, West Twenty-eighth St. An English coal-heaver’s home.

  28. Dispossessed.

  29. The trench in the potter’s field.

  30. Prayer-time in the nursery⁠—Five Points House of Industry.

  31. “Didn’t live nowhere.”

  32. Street Arabs in sleeping quarters.

  33. Getting ready for supper in the Newsboys’ Lodging House.

  34. A downtown “morgue.”

  35. A growler gang in session.

  36. Typical toughs (from the rogues’ gallery).

  37. Hunting river thieves.

  38. Sewing and starving in an Elizabeth Street attic.

  39. A flat in the pauper barracks, West Thirty-eighth Street, with all its furniture.

  40. Coffee at one cent.

  41. Evolution of the tenement in twenty years.

  42. General plan of the Riverside Buildings (A. T. White’s) in Brooklyn.

  43. Floor plan of one division in the Riverside Buildings, showing six “apartments.”

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