"Baxter Street Alley, Rag-Picker's Row"

In the February 12, 1898 issue of the New York Sun, Jacob Riis wrote, "At 59 Baxter Street . . . is an alley leading in from the sidewalk with tenements on either side crowding so close as to almost shut out the light of day. On one side they are brick and on the other wood, but there is little difference in their ricketiness and squalor."

Date:
1898
Original Format:
Photographic Print
Item#:
1890.0328
Photographer:
Jacob Riis
Height:
2739px
Width:
2097px
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