The History Project - University of California, Davis
Notes about this image:"Shooting Craps: Game of the Street…The mania for gambling is all but universal. Every street child is a born gambler; he has nothing to lose and all to win…nothing to learn of the bad it has to teach." Child labor. c. 1895, printed c. 1946.
Citation:Jacob Riis photo. Courtesy of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third St., San Francisco, CA 94103. Our thanks to SFMOMA. In "The Battle of the Slum 1887-1897," U.S. Camera, 1948. 11.2.1, 11.2.9
Standard:11.2-9.00 the effect of political programs and activities of the Progressives (e.g., federal regulation of railroad transport, Children’s Bureau, the 16th Amendment, Theodore Roosevelt)

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