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Children of the Tenements

Children of the Tenements

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Number of Chapters: 41

Length: 09 hours and 41 minutes

Language: English

This is a collection of vignettes about poverty in New York City in the early 1900s. Jacob Riis was a police reporter and a sociologist. He made human the faces of extreme poverty and did not limit his often-wrenching prose to children. He included old people and animals, and described diverse cultures. These stories evoke both laughter and tears.

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Preface (Judi Mason)
The Rent Baby (Judi Mason)
A Story of Bleeker Street (Judi Mason)
The Kid Hangs Up His Stocking (Judi Mason)
The Slipper-Maker's Fast (Judi Mason)
Death Comes to Cat Alley (Judi Mason)
A Proposal on the Elevated (Judi Mason)
Little Will's Message (Judi Mason)
Lost Children (Judi Mason)
Paolo's Awakening (Judi Mason)
The Little Dollar's Christmas Journey (Judi Mason)
The Kid (Judi Mason)
When the Letter Came (Judi Mason)
The Cat Took the Kosher Meat (Judi Mason)
Nibsy's Christmas (Judi Mason)
In the Children's Hospital (Judi Mason)
Nigger Martha's Wake (Judi Mason)
What the Christmas Sun Saw in the Tenements (Judi Mason)
Midwinter in New York (Judi Mason)
A Chip from the Maelstrom (Judi Mason)
Sarah Joyce's Husbands (Judi Mason)
Merry Christmas in the Tenements (Judi Mason)
Abe's Game of Jacks (Judi Mason)
A Little Picture (Judi Mason)
A Dream of the Woods (Judi Mason)
Twas 'Liza's Doings (Judi Mason)
Heroes Who Fight Fire (Judi Mason)
John Gavin, Misfit (Judi Mason)
A Heathen Baby (Judi Mason)
The Christening in Bottle Alley (Judi Mason)
In the Mulberry Street Court (Judi Mason)
Difficulties of a Deacon (Judi Mason)
Fire in the Barracks (Judi Mason)
War on the Goats (Judi Mason)
He Kept His Tryst (Judi Mason)
Rover's Last Fight (Judi Mason)
How Jim Went to the War (Judi Mason)
A Backwoods Hero (Judi Mason)
Jack's Sermon (Judi Mason)
Skippy of Scrabble Alley (Judi Mason)
Making a Way Out of the Slum (Judi Mason)
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