Gathered from his own experience and from others who worked among the poor, these short sketches bring the people of the Lower East Side tenements to life: a family on Ludlow Street, the feuding Rileys, the old and the dying, children driven from home, and a woman who begs police, charities and judges in vain to save a child from cruelty.
Late, compassionate work by the reformer whose photographs and reporting changed how America saw its slums. Download the free EPUB.