“A flat in the pauper barracks, west thirty-eighth street, with all its furniture”. This is a drawing, focusing on the corner of the room. There is so little room that the bed/couch is shoved against the door. There is another door, and next to it is a wood stool with a bucket on top. The walls are dark and dirty, the ceiling is low and rickety and the wall has wood supports along the …showed first 75 words of 750 total…

…showed last 75 words of 750 total…much more often as a fuel for fires. The tenement is quite small, with items strewn around the apartment. From the amount of clothing the people are wearing and the fact that the baby has to be held probably because it was so cold. The picture shows a very standard scene, and offers the life of a common immigrant of New York City. The picture inspires a great amount of pity as well as admiration.