When they imagine new York, the so-called "Big Apple", the mind visualizes bright neon signs, filled with pedestrian streets, where you meet celebrities and the steady yellow taxi, the endless procession passing by. Now all of it is true, but in the nineteenth century, new York was completely different. Then he started to show its character, although even then the gap between rich and poor was very noticeable as today.
There is one property that new York has retained to this day: a place built on dreams, aspirations and hard work. Some go through their heads, while others fold back, helping others, and all the rest — a silent and innocent witnesses. Modest, sometimes outright poor life of the common people, who made new York what it is now captured in these historic photographs.
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The densely populated slum pockets in new York.
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People grow their own food in gardens.
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The man rummaging in the garbage in search of something valuable.
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On the ruins of the house.
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In a working family all busy.
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Young gentlemen.
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A street pavement.
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The girls in the classroom.
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The prisoner.
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The margins of simple houses strewn with rubbish and covered with linen.
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Out on the patio.
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At school lesson.
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Linen dries on the street, almost on the tree.
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In the Park.
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Porch of the wooden house.
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Sessions with children.
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The police and the crowd.
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Gamblers.
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Family migrants.
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The young athletes.
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The barrels in the backyard.
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Pool.
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Narrow dark streets.
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Poor.
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Street children.
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Outside the post office.
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Parade.
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Poor lighting and overcrowding were characteristic of new York at that time.
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Old wooden house on a background of brick buildings.
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Children play in the yard.
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Mod.
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A woman smokes a pipe and knits on the needles.
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Prisoners.
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A young nanny.
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