tenement houses

"1910, Edinburgh. Jessie MacRae has been sent to a tenement building by her recently-deceased father to bear a child for a wealthy man and his fianc?e. The . . . events that follow lead to a curse on the building and its residents--a curse that will last for the rest of the century. Over nine decades, 10 Luckenbooth Close bears witness to emblems of a changing world outside its walls. An infamous madam, a spy, a famous Beat poet, a coal miner who fears daylight, a psychic: these are some of the residents whose lives are plagued by the building's troubled history in disparate, sometimes chilling ways. The curse creeps up the nine floors as a suppressed spirit world swells to the surface, desperate for the true horror of the building's longest kept secret to be heard"--Dust jacket flap.

Chronicles the life and career of newspaper photographer Jacob Riis, who was determined to change the fate of those living in the tenement houses of New York.

In the waning days of the Roman republic, Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger is elected to the lowly office of aedile, where he is required to investigate the collapse of a tenement building, and finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens his life.

Looks at the career of reporter, photographer, and social reformer, Jacob Riis.

Looks at the career of reporter, photographer, and social reformer, Jacob Riis.

Provides a detailed picture of what life in the slums of New York was like, how the slums were created, how and why they remained as they were, and who was forced to live there, and offers suggestions for easing the lot of the poor.

A collection of true stories about how men and women have managed to overcome the violence and poverty of New York City's slums.

Photographs and text document the experiences of five individuals who came to live in the Lower East Side of New York City as children or young adults from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania at the turn of the twentieth century.