Children of the Tenements

by Jacob A. Riis

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Contents

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

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