Slumdogs of New York: The remarkable images capturing immigrant families in an unrecognisable 19th century New York | Mail Online: Crime reporter and reformer Jacob Riis took advantage of the newly-invented flash photography to document the city’s dark side in these incredible pictures of slum life among the immigrant underclass.
In one heart-wrenching picture three small barefoot children huddle together for warmth over a grating. Others show street children huddling close together for warmth, or working the streets as shoeshines and beggars.
For many immigrants the new life was a tough one- some of the streets where they had made their home were notorious for violent crime.