Patrick Kieley - age 11 [graphic] ; As found half starved by the Society's officers. Face cut and body bruised by inhuman parents.

Patrick Kieley - age 11 [graphic] ; As found half starved by the Society's officers. Face cut and body bruised by inhuman parents.

Children--Economic & social conditions--New York (State)--New York--1890-1900. Poor persons--New York (State)--New York--1890-1900. Starvation--1890-1900. Abused children--New York (State)--New York--1890-1900. Boys--New York (State)--New York--1890-1900.

Illustration shows emaciated, wounded boy standing next to barrel. Illus. in: Darkness and daylight: or, Lights and shadows of New York life. A woman's narrative of mission and rescue work in tough places, with personal experiences among the poor in regions of poverty and vice / by Mrs. Helen Campbell, Col. Thomas W. Knox, Inspector Thomas Byrnes. Hartford, Conn. : A.D. Worthington & Co., publishers, 1891, p. 177.

These type of conditions and sights were probably what drove Jane Addams to found Hull house. The image is dated two years after the house was founded.

Library of Congress - https://www.loc.gov/item/2012647171/

1891

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Still Image. Book illustrations 1890-1900. Prints 1890-1900.

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