Discovery of three half-starved alms-house children in the room of a hired nurse, 152 East Thirty-Fourth Street.

Children--Health and hygiene--New York (State)--New York.

Poverty--New York (State)--New York--19th century.

Tenement houses--New York (State)--New York.

Interior view of three orphans being removed from the room of a hired nurse.

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

Harper's Weekly, February 19, 1859, n.p.

1859

Unknown

Copyright Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Prints

152 East 34th Street

The Homes of the Poor, The Fever Nests in Thirty-Second Street.

Poverty--New York (State)--New York--1890-1900.

Tenement houses--New York (State)--New York.

"Fever Nests" refers to areas of the city, usually tenements, in which typhus fever, typhoid fever and smallpox flourished. Image shows Civil War era slums with animals in the streets and an industrial smoke stack in the background spewing smoke.

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

Harpers Weekly, May 12 1866, n.p.

1866

Unknown

Copyright Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Prints

32nd Street