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Funeral from a tenement house in Baxter Street, Five Points, New York Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, July 1, 1865





A tenement house in Mulberry Street, NYC, Harper's Weekly, Sept. 13, 1873




Homes of the Poor, Harper's Weekly, July 28, 1883



Mulberry Street, New York City, ca. 1900, Detroit Publishing Co.,
Library of Congress



Tenement on Spruce Street, Providence, R.I., Lewis Hine, 1912,
Library of Congress




Tenement Yard, New York City, Detroit Publishing Co. ca 1900-1910,
Library of Congress

                         
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