Jacob Riis took this photo inside a Ludlow Street tenement apartment circa 1905. Looks like the entire extended family was running its own mini sweatshop.
Notice the little pup under the chair at left. I’d never seen a pet dog in a Lower East Side tenement interior photo before.
He looks pretty content there, with all his people around him.
Tags: cloth cutting, Immigrants on the Lower East Side, Jacob Riis, Lower East Side, Ludlow Street, New York City 1905, New York City at the turn of the century, tenement photos
February 19, 2010 at 6:44 pm |
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