A young girl holding a baby sits in a doorway in New York City, circa 1890.Jacob A. Riis/Museum of the City of New York/Getty Images Danish photographer Jacob Riis captured the inhumane conditions of ...

ONE of the latest evidences of growing American civilization is the interest manifested in housing reform. Stimulated largely by the work of the New York Tenement House Commission of 1901, many cities ...

Genesis of the tenement -- The awakening -- The mixed crowd -- The down town back-alleys -- The Italian in New York -- The Bend -- A raid on the stale-beer dives -- The cheap lodging-houses -- ...

The Gilded Age was a period of enormous wealth for some and extreme poverty for others. Photos show how the poor lived in cramped tenements while the rich built multiple mansions. The Gilded Age's ...