A training-school of crime; Boys playing pickpocket in an alley.

A training-school of crime; Boys playing pickpocket in an alley.

Children--Economic & social conditions--New York (State)--New York--1890-1900. Pickpockets--New York (State)--New York--1890-1900. Juvenile delinquents--New York (State)--New York--1890-1900.

Illustration shows boys rummaging through a sleeping man's pockets. 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. 484.

Poverty causes crime not the other way around. Children learning to steal out of necessity. Two years after Hull house opens.

Library of Congress - https://www.loc.gov/item/2012647178/

1891

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English

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

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.02116

Still Image