Poverty,tenement life in New York City,ca. 1890

Poverty and tenement life in New York City, ca. 1890
Title: Poverty and tenement life in New York City, ca. 1890
Related Names:
Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914.
United States. Federal Security Agency.
Date Created/Published: ca. 1890, printed ca. 1950?
Summary: Photographs show views inside tenement and lodging houses; portraits of children and adults; street scenes; children and adults working at home; children playing in streets, attending school, at playgrounds; some views of newsboys at lodging houses. Also some photographs of published prints based on Riis' photographs.
Notes:
LOT title devised by Library staff.
Photographs originally taken and collected by Riis from 1888-ca. 1890 for his publication titled How the other half lives: studies among the tenements of New York (1890). The copy prints in this LOT were made in the late 1940s or early 1950s from original negatives in the possession of the Museum of the City of New York reportedly for an exhibit at the Federal Security Agency, sometime during the early 1950s.
Most of the prints are mounted on boards measuring 36 x 26 cm. or smaller.
Transfer; Federal Security Agency; 1953.
Subjects:
Slums--New York (State)--New York--1880-1900.
Tenement houses--New York (State)--New York--1880-1900.
Lodging houses--New York (State)--New York--1880-1900.
Poor persons--New York (State)--New York--1880-1900.
Interiors--New York (State)--New York--1880-1900.
Children--New York (State)--New York--1880-1900.
Poverty--New York (State)--New York--1880-1900.
Home labor--New York (State)--New York--1880-1900.
Gelatin silver prints--1950-1960.
Group portraits--1880-1900.
Portrait photographs--1880-1900.
Bookmark /2002717297/
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