#tenement

Kids in a tenement kitchen, 1935. At the left is the bathtub, which was always in the kitchen. It's covered by a tray to serve as a work space.

Tell whoever put you up to this.

That if I am to flower into something other than myself,

I would rather rot into nothingness as I am.

Garment workers. Katrina De Cato, 6 years old, Franco Brezoo, 11 years old, Maria Attreo, 12 years old, Mattie Attreo, 5 years old. 4 P.M. New York City.

Record Group 102: Records of the Children's BureauSeries: National Child Labor Committee Photographs taken by Lewis Hine

"Cross Streets of New York by Everett Shinn was originally an illustration for an article in Scribners with the same title. Shinn came to New York in 1897 to work as an illustrator at the New York World, and his journalistic eye took him all over Manhattan to chronicle human drama—at street level, on elevated trains, and beside riverfronts where forgotten people lived on the margins.

"A keen observer of people and sympathetic to their struggles, Shinn captured that drama with rich pops of color along a bleak and anonymous city block."