Charles R Hale on Nostr: "The truth is that pauperism grows in the tenements as naturally as weeds in a garden ...
"The truth is that pauperism grows in the tenements as naturally as weeds in a garden lot. A moral distemper, like crime, it finds there its most fertile soil." Jacob A. Riis from his book, How The Other Half Lives.
Photo: An Italian immigrant smokes a pipe in his makeshift home under the Rivington Street Dump. Circa 1890
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