C Children of the Tenements Jacob A. Riis

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Children of the Tenements

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First published: 1903
Pages: 251

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Preface
1:55
The Rent Baby
18:01
A Story of Bleeker Street
11:37
The Kid Hangs Up His Stocking
10:38
The Slipper-Maker's Fast
4:57
Death Comes to Cat Alley
5:44
A Proposal on the Elevated
8:10
Little Will's Message
17:15
Lost Children
14:55
Paolo's Awakening
22:30
The Little Dollar's Christmas Journey
21:28
The Kid
4:51
When the Letter Came
6:30
The Cat Took the Kosher Meat
5:54
Nibsy's Christmas
19:10
In the Children's Hospital
13:17
Nigger Martha's Wake
9:53
What the Christmas Sun Saw in the Tenements
25:03
Midwinter in New York
37:20
A Chip from the Maelstrom
5:34
Sarah Joyce's Husbands
4:12
Merry Christmas in the Tenements
67:23
Abe's Game of Jacks
5:36
A Little Picture
2:37
A Dream of the Woods
9:15
Twas 'Liza's Doings
18:56
Heroes Who Fight Fire
59:46
John Gavin, Misfit
7:20
A Heathen Baby
7:35
The Christening in Bottle Alley
7:35
In the Mulberry Street Court
4:03
Difficulties of a Deacon
11:34
Fire in the Barracks
3:57
War on the Goats
7:16
He Kept His Tryst
5:52
Rover's Last Fight
9:22
How Jim Went to the War
17:26
A Backwoods Hero
8:23
Jack's Sermon
13:48
Skippy of Scrabble Alley
10:50
Making a Way Out of the Slum
34:15

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About this book

Forty short pieces drawn from Jacob Riis's years as a police reporter on New York's Mulberry Street, collected by Macmillan in 1903. Riis says plainly in his preface that he could never invent even a small part of a plot, that a story had to come to him complete before he could tell it, and that nine out of ten of these came fresh from the life of the people. Most first ran in the Evening Sun, and some had already appeared in an earlier gathering called Out of Mulberry Street. The titles show the territory: The Rent Baby, Death comes to Cat Alley, The Christening in Bottle Alley, Heroes who Fight Fire, John Gavin Misfit, Skippy of Scrabble Alley. Christmas recurs often. Some titles and passages carry the ethnic and racial language of 1903 and read harshly now.

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Jacob A. Riis

Jacob August Riis (1849-1914) emigrated from Ribe, Denmark, to New York in 1870 and spent several years in poverty before finding work as a police reporter, first for the Tribune and later for the Evening Sun.

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