List of Illustrations
Reading edition
LECTURE II
At the Old Five Points 90
The “Old Church Tenements” 92
Gotham Court 94
Midnight in Gotham Court 94
The Alderman’s Tenements 96
Little Susie 98
Tenement Where a Home was Murdered 100
A “Drunken” Flat 102
In a Baxter Street Yard 104
Shanty Dwellings in a Tenement Yard 104
Washing in an Italian Flat; the Tea Kettle Used as a Wash Boiler 106
Pietro and his Father 108
Sister Irene and her Little Ones 110
The Open Trench in the Potter’s Field 112
“The Way Out”—Bedtime in the Five Points House of Industry Nursery 114
LECTURE III
A Typical Tenement House Block 126
The Only Bathtub in the Block 128
The Riverside Tenements 130
Lodgers at “Five Cents a Spot” 132
They “Lived Nowhere” 136
Joining “the Club” 138
10Hell on Earth 140
The City and Suburban Homes Company’s Model Tenements; The Alfred Corning Clark Block 142
The “To-morrow” 144
It is Five Years Since the Bend Became a Park 146
In the Public School of To-day 150
Saluting the Flag 152
11I
OUR SINS IN THE PAST
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