How the Other Half Lived: Photographs of Jacob Riis

"Five Cent a Spot" Unauthorized Lodgings in a Bayard Street Tenement. Via Preus Museum

“Five Cent a Spot” Unauthorized Lodgings in a Bayard Street Tenement. Via Preus Museum

"Mulberry Bend." Via Preus Museum

“Mulberry Bend.” Via Preus Museum

"Home of an Italian Ragpicker." Via Preus Museum

“Home of an Italian Ragpicker.” Via Preus Museum

"Bandit`s Roost" 59 1/2 Mullbery Street. Via Preus Museum

“Bandit`s Roost” 59 1/2 Mullbery Street. Via Preus Museum

"One of four Pedlars Who Slept in the Celler of 11 Ludlow Street Rear." Via Preus Museum

“One of four Pedlars Who Slept in the Celler of 11 Ludlow Street Rear.” Via Preus Museum

Baxter Street in Mulberry Bend. Via Preus Museum

Baxter Street in Mulberry Bend. Via Preus Museum

"Elizabeth Street Police Station-Womans Lodgers." Via Preus Museum

“Elizabeth Street Police Station-Womans Lodgers.” Via Preus Museum

"A Class in the Condemned Essex Market School, With the Gas Burning by Day." Via Preus Museum

“A Class in the Condemned Essex Market School, With the Gas Burning by Day.” Via Preus Museum

Tenement Yard, How the Other Half Lives. Via Preus Museum

Tenement Yard, How the Other Half Lives. Via Preus Museum

Group of Men. New York. Via Preus Museum

Group of Men. New York. Via Preus Museum

Hell on Earth. Via Preus Museum

Hell on Earth. Via Preus Museum

"Bohemian Cigarmakers at work in their Tenement." Via Preus Museum

“Bohemian Cigarmakers at work in their Tenement.” Via Preus Museum

Talmud School in Hester Street. Via Preus Museum

Talmud School in Hester Street. Via Preus Museum

"Shoemaker Working in a house in the Yard of 219 Broome Street, Which the Landlord Built When the Sanitary Police Put him out of the Basement. Clatterpol Sticks Up Through his House. Rent $ 12 a Month." Via Preus Museum

“Shoemaker Working in a house in the Yard of 219 Broome Street, Which the Landlord Built When the Sanitary Police Put him out of the Basement. Clatterpol Sticks Up Through his House. Rent $ 12 a Month.” Via Preus Museum

In Poverty Gap, an English Coal-Heaver`s Home. Via Preus Museum

In Poverty Gap, an English Coal-Heaver`s Home. Via Preus Museum