A tenement-house alley gang : Candidates for crime

A tenement-house alley gang : Candidates for crime

Children--Economic & social conditions--1890-1900. Poor persons--1890-1900. Tenement houses--1890-1900. Alleys--1890-1900.

Illustration shows children and teenagers gathered on and around a wagon in a dilapidated alley. 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. 485.

Two years after Hull house opened. Another woman, attempting to help the poor. The impoverished who live in the tenement housing, shown in the above image, are automatically assumed to be future criminals. However, while there is a link between poverty and crime, it has not been proven that crime causes poverty. Therefore, the belief that crime causes poverty may be part of the reason for a stigma around poverty that persists today.

Sperry, R. T., artist.

Library of Congress - https://www.loc.gov/item/2012646056/

1891.

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English

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

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