Baby in slum tenement hallway, N.Y.C. – Vintage Print
![Baby in slum tenement hallway, N.Y.C., [ca. 1888 or 1889] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9d/9d2f22320b67-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Baby in slum tenement hallway, N.Y.C. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Baby in slum tenement hallway, N.Y.C.
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The title places a baby in a dark tenement hallway in New York City, and the caption card dates the picture to about 1888 or 1889. Photographs like this belong to a wave of documentary work from those years, when reformers and newspaper writers used images of crowded tenements to press for better light, air, and sanitation in the city's poorest neighborhoods. Jacob Riis's 1890 book *How the Other Half Lives* drew on the same kind of imagery. Because the caption information is old and unverified, the photographer and circumstances remain uncertain, but the picture still shows how close family life and street life were in the city's densest blocks.
| Created / published | [ca. 1888 or 1889] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,226 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115223 |
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