The History Project - University of California, Davis
Notes about this image:Newsboys' lodging house, founded in the 1850s by Teddy Roosevelt's father. Child labor.
Citation:Jacob Riis photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ62-16347. In Mary Cable and the Eds. of American Heritage, American Manners and Morals, 1969, p. 314. 11.2.1
Standard:11.2-1.00 the effect of industrialization on living and working conditions, including the treatment of working conditions and food safety in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle

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