Jacob Riis

How the Other Half Lives

5 cents a spot

The only slide the kids had to play on….

Child laborer in a sweat shop

7 cents /night lodging on Pell Street, NYC

Dangerous, decrepit tenements

$1.00/month to sleep in these sheds. The tenements were torn down to build the factories behind the sheds

Pedlar who slept in the cellar of a building for 4 years