Jacob+Riis



In this picture you see a bunch of people crammed into a small place. As you can tell this is probably there living situation. There is stuff everywhere. It doesn’t look there is much room to breathe. It makes me feel sad looking at this because I don’t know if I could ever live like that. They probably wish they a had little more room but I bet they are just happy to have a place to live and stay. Make me thankful for I have.



In this photo you see a man smoking a pipe in his house. Its hardly a house though because it is so small and dirty. Their beds and bedding are disgusting. And the pots and pans that they eat out of are icky too.

I At the age of 9 and 7, our parents worked every day and we hardly saw them. When they were home and trying to spend time with us it seemed like they didn’t even care. Drunk, upset, very angry, impatient and then the beatings that came when we seemed to do something wrong. We spent our long days working in factories and trying to do things the right way, yet we were so young and not all that strong so we struggled and stumbled through the work shifts trying to make it without being let go, because they little pay we did receive was what we used to feed and support ourselves since our parents were unable to… This looks like a very depressing time period. As you can see there are no smiles on the faces; hard times. The streets were dirty and full of trash. Most of the men were unemployed. This meant that the women and children had to have a full time job. The children didn’t go to school because they had to work. A lot of times their living quarters were small and crowded which meant they were usually dirty which lead to disease and sometimes deaths.

The feeling is depressing. These kids probably don’t have a house or parents. Maybe their parents were sent back to the country they came from. If they do have parents they’re both most likely working. The three boys look starved, poorly dressed for cold weather, and in need of shelter.



There are men everywhere on the floor; there’re not enough beds for everyone. There’s a teeny fireplace that probably doesn’t give much heat. There are some men sleeping on tables, at which they probably eat. There’s a rusty nasty sink in the corner. Wood is piled everywhere, probably for heating the room. They’re sleeping on newspapers! There’s paper over the window. Their feet are disgusting, so they probably don’t have shoes. They don’t have pillows, either. Our lives are luxurious compared to theirs.

These women look like they don’t have a place of their own. The room doesn’t look very welcoming. Everyone is huddled around the stove, and they have to hang dry their clothes in the room. The women don’t look like they have much energy and it doesn’t look like they have very comfortable sleeping quarters. (brooke somero, rita,travis)