NYC c. 1888 -or- Guaranteed To Blow Your Mind!

[dales]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -York.html










Now, this is REALLY football!

[oldr_n_wsr]

Incredible. How people survived and made. Some didn't, many did.

ETA
I like the picture of kids born to people while waiting to get in. Those people must have waited more than a few years.

[dales]

The picture of those young boys sleeping over a heating grate were heart-wrenching.

[Lord Jim]

An Italian immigrant smokes a pipe in his makeshift home under the Rivington Street Dump

Now that is bad...

When you have to live under a dump....

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

Hey, the cigar company isn't in the charity business...

If they didn't like the wages being paid they could always find a job some place else....

[Scooter]

I like the picture of kids born to people while waiting to get in. Those people must have waited more than a few years.

I think they more likely accompanied their parents on the voyage over and were being detained at Ellis Island with them. I don't imagine that there were many people detained for five or six or more years waiting to get in.

[oldr_n_wsr]

I thought that too but to be sure, I'll go reread. Where is the RIF van when you (I) need it?