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A sick woman in a squalid rear tenement, so wretched and so pitiful that, in all the years since, I have not seen anything more appealing, determined me, within half an hour, to live on the East…
Contributor:
Lillian Wald
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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[…] We knew Dr. James had visited when we found our mothers in bed “resting,” an odd word, an odd event. When we left for school, they had no symptoms of cold or cough or pain; preoccupied perhaps…
Contributor:
Kate Simon
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1982
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The figurative underworld of a great city has no ventilation, housing or lighting problems. Rooks and crooks who live in the putrid air of crime are not denied the light of day, even though they…
Contributor:
Fannie Hurst
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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Contributor:
Paul Strand
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1916
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The towering life of the towering city
Is burning in white fires.
And in the streets of the Jewish East side
The whiteness of the fires burns even whiter.
I like to stroll in the burning frenzy of…
Contributor:
H. Leivick
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1923