Slumdogs of New York
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Old New York Slumdogs.
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1. Three young street children huddle together over a grate for warmth in an alleyway off Mulberry Street, Manhattan
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2. A young girl, holding a baby, sits in a doorway next to a garbage can.
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3. In an astonishingly atmospheric image taken in 1887, a group of men loiter in an alley known as 'Bandit's Roost' off Mulberry Street
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4. The sight of Italian immigrant families in New York on Jersey Street, living in shacks could be a scene from the developing world today
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5. A dilapidated wooden shack sits in an empty lot surrounded by tenement buildings in 1896.
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6. View of a back-lot house on Bleecker Street between Mercer and Greene Streets, almost toppling into an excavation site
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7. An Italian immigrant smokes a pipe in his makeshift home under the Rivington Street Dump
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8. A man sorts through trash under the 47th Street dump where he has made his home in around 1890
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9. In a picture taken in 1890 a Bohemian family of four roll cigars at home in their tenement. Working from six in the morning till nine at night, they earn 3.75 for a thousand cigars, and between them could turn out three thousand cigars a week
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10. Mrs Benoit, a Native American widow, sews and beads while smoking a pipe in her Hudson Street apartment, New York City.
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11. A dishevelled shoeshine boy named Tommy takes a break from business
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12. A Native American, Mountain Eagle, and his family make handicrafts while one son plays violin in their tenement at 6 Beach Street in this image taken in 1895
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13. A group of prisoners in striped suits and hats at The Lock-step Penitentiary on Blackwell's Island around 1890
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14. A shrine in 'Bandits Roost', between Mulberry Street and Mulberry Bend, Little Italy, during the feast of Saint Rocco on the 23rd May, 1895.
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15. A real mulberry tree behind an early building, presumably the original dwelling in the area of Mulberry Bend
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16. One girl laughs with delight at having her photo taken as street children get the chance to read at a library at 48 Henry Street, New York City in 1900
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17. Children play with barrels under the washing hung between tenements in Gotham Court, Cherry Street around 1890
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18. Teachers show primary school children how to plant seeds in a plot of land in New York. This picture was taken in about 1900
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19. A group portrait of a football team posing in front of a fence at the West Side Playground, 68th Street, in 1895
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20. A grocery shop and post office on Mulberry Street in Little Italy, around 1890
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21. Warmly wrapped up children play in front of Dewitt Church, 280 Rivington Street, in 1890
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22. Three girls jump rope while a group of children and adults form a semicircle around them on the rooftop playground of the Hebrew Institute
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23. Children swim under the supervision of adults at Public Bath 10, at the Hudson River
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24. Schoolboys play with a ball on the rooftop playground
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25. Children of Mott Street Industrial School, New York, salute the Stars and Stripes, and repeat the Oath of Allegiance
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26. Children holding American flags while riding tricycles and wagons on the rooftop garden of Ellis Island were the offspring of detained or waiting immigrants
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