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=New York City at the time of //Ragged Dic**k**//=

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History of Poverty and Homelessness in New York New York Tenement Life (Neighborhoods of NY) Cost of Living in New York City (see info on page 10). Food prices in the 1800s The Gospel of Wealth
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[|How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis] This pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis (1890) focused on the plight of the poor in the Lower East Side, and greatly influenced future "muckraking" journalism. Great photographs from the time period.
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