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Jacob A. Riis
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The Making of an American
> Illustrations
CONTENTS
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Jacob A. Riis
18491914
. The Making of an American.
1901.
Illustrations
Our Stork
Ribe, from the Castle Hill
The View the Stork got of the Old Town
The Domkirke
Within the Domkirke
Mother
The Deserted Quay
Downstream, where Ships sailed once
A Cobblestone-paved Alley
Father
My Childhoods Home
The Picture her Mother gave me
Bradys Bend as I knew it
I found the valley deserted and dead
The dead were much better company
Lunching at Delmonicos
The Fight on the Police Station Steps
There I set my traps
Our Old Pastor
When I worked in the Buffalo Ship-yard
One end of the town was burning while I was canvassing the other
I went to hear Horace Greeley address an open-air meeting
The wide world seemed suddenly a cold and far-off place
Hard Times
Brother Simmons. [The Rev. Ichabod Simmons.]
The Letter
Elizabeth's Mother
Elizabeth's HomeThe Castle
Elizabeth as I found her again
I was face to face with my father
Out into the open country, into the wide world,our life's journey had begun
Mulberry Street
Tribune Police Bureau
In which lay dying a French nobleman of proud and ancient name
Our Officemy Partner, Mr. Ensign at the Desk, I in the Corner
About that interview, now, he drawled
The carriage went on
The Bulletin
Dr. Roger S. Tracy
General Ely Parker, Chief of the Six Nations
The Lodging-room at the Leonard Street Police Station
The Church Street Station Lodging-room, in which I was robbed
The Yellow Newspapers Contribution
The Mulberry Bend as it was
The tenants bolted through the windows
Lodgers at Five Cents a Spot
Bandits Roosta Mulberry Bend Alley
Bottle Alley, Mulberry Bend. Headquarters of the Whyo Gang
The Mulberry Bend as it is
Mr. Lowells Letter
The Boys Playground in an Oldtime School
Typical East Side Tenement Block. Five hundred babies in it, not one bathtub
One was sitting asleep on a buttertub
Chief of Police Thomas Byrnes
The Mott Street Barracks
Gotham Court
A Tenement House Air-shaft
The School of the New Day
The Way to prevent the Manufacture of Toughs
Ribe, in my Childhood
At Home in the Old Town
The gossip benches are filled
The Extinct Chimney-sweep
The Ancient Bellwoman
The Village Express
Holy Andrews Cross
Sir Asker Rygs Church at Fjennesloevlille
Horse-meat to-day
!
The Cross of Dannebrog
King Christian as I saw him last
Christmas Eve with the Kings Daughters
James Tanner
The little ones from Cherry Street
My Silver Bride
Here comes the Baby
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CONTENTS
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
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