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Poor regulation and high winds would often cause devastating fires that ravaged the densely packed cities. For example, the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 killed 300 people and cost upwards of $200 million in damages. Another infamous fire was the one at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, a sweatshop in New York City, where a total of 146 people were killed from burning alive, suffocating on smoke, being stuck in elevator shafts, and jumping to sidewalks when trapped due to a lack of proper escape routes.

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1888, Jacob Riis

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1911

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1911 - A Trip Through New York City (speed corrected w/ added sound)

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The city of New York, 1879, Williams, J. W.

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Tuberculosis was the single leading cause of death in New York throughout the 1900s. From 1881 to 1895, an average of more than 5,000 New Yorkers died of the disease annually. Other diseases rampant in the city were smallpox, typhoid, malaria, yellow fever, cholera, and tuberculosis. Typhoid in particular killed more than 5,000 people in the 1860s.

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A small newsie downtown on a Saturday afternoon. St. Louis, Missouri. Lewis W. Hine

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12-years-old. Can't read. Doesn't know his A,B,C's. Said, "Yes I want to learn but can't when I work all the time." Lewis W. Hine

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In New York City in the 1870s, the number of homeless children ranged from 20,000 to 30,000, making up 12% of school-aged children. In 1900, only 6 out of 10 New York City school-aged children were enrolled in school. That same year, 18% of American workers were under the age of 16.

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A crowd stands outside the Indiana Building at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

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Until 1909, New York City had the world’s tallest building: the Singer Building at over 600 ft. The city then topped itself with the next tallest building; the Metropolitan Life Tower was 700 ft tall.

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Even though the living conditions of the poor included "slop oozing down stairwells," the rent per square foot was 25-35% higher in the slums than the fancier apartments of uptown New York for the wealthy.

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In New York in 1900, the total population was 3.4 million, and grew to 5.6 million by 1920. Chicago’s population went from 1.6 million to 2.7 million in the same timeframe, making the populations of cities much denser.

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Between 1868 and 1875, around 500,000 people resided in the slums of New York, where as many as eight people would share a few rooms that were roughly 10 square feet. One building on the Lower East Side held 101 adults and 91 children.

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Three boys walking near an elephant from the Barnes Circus which is walking down the middle of Atlantic St. near Nevins, Wallace G. Levison

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Rivington St, New York City, 1888, Jacob Riis

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In 1900, Pittsburgh residents spent $1,500,000 on laundry work. Despite high expenses, "clean collars quickly acquired a thin layer of soot, and the bituminous coal dust gave clothes... a permanent yellow tinge."

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Lodging room at the Leonard Street Police Station

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Lodging room at the Leonard Street Police Station

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1892, Jacob Riis

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Pittsburg had 14,000 chimneys between residents and iron and steel plants, and the product was described as an atmosphere "worthy of Satan himself."

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Shoe making was a common craft in the Gilded Age. 1896, Jacob Riis

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Without an effective sanitation and waste system, "kitchen slops, cinders, coal dust, horse manure, broken cobblestones and dumped merchandise were piled high on the sidewalks."