"In the Home of an Italian Rag-picker, Jersey Street"
This photograph by Jacob Riis shows an Italian immigrant woman holding her baby in a run-down tenement. It originally appeared in the book, "How the Other Half Lives."
- Date:
- 1890 circa 5 years
- Original Format:
- Photographic Print
- Item#:
- 1890.0327
- Photographer:
- Jacob Riis
- Height:
- 2238px
- Width:
- 2793px
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