Jacob A. Riis 1849–1914. 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 Childhood’s Home
- The Picture her Mother gave me
- Brady’s Bend as I knew it
- “I found the valley deserted and dead”
- “The dead were much better company”
- Lunching at Delmonico’s
- 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 Home—“The 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 Office—my 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
- Bandit’s Roost—a Mulberry Bend Alley
- Bottle Alley, Mulberry Bend. Headquarters of the Whyo Gang
- The Mulberry Bend as it is
- Mr. Lowell’s Letter
- The Boys’ “Playground” in an Old—time 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 Andrew’s Cross
- Sir Asker Ryg’s Church at Fjennesloevlille
- “Horse-meat to-day!”
- The Cross of Dannebrog
- King Christian as I saw him last
- Christmas Eve with the King’s Daughters
- James Tanner
- “The little ones from Cherry Street”
- My Silver Bride
- Here comes the Baby!