11:30 A.M. Jennie Rizzandi, 9 year old girl, helping mother and father finish garments in a dilapidated tenement, 5 Extra Pl., N.Y.C. They all work until 9 P.M. when busy, and make about $2 to $2.50 a week. Father works on street, when he has work. Jennie was a truant, "I staid home 'cause a lady was comin'."
1913 January. Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer.
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ReplyDeleteA WEEK!
I have nothing to complain about in life.
ReplyDeleteand here I thought extra place was created as part of setback requirements only a few years ago when Avalon Bowery Place was built...
ReplyDeleteThis is what some people want our society to return to. But not on Extra Place- somewhere in the outskirts where they don't have to look at poor people.
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