Jacob Riis is the photographer and the slum is the Five Points.
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And yet they're dressed nicer than most people on the street today. Or at least most people in the local Walmart.
This is definitely not a slum.
I'm not saying youre wrong, but why do you say that?
Looking at the "ghost" on the left, I wonder how long they had to stand still for this picture to be taken.
In the late 1880s, not really all that long with fairly recent cameras. https://time.com/4568032/smile-serious-old-photos/
Is it me, or do these people look really short?
Everybody used to be shorter on average, yes.
Just living life without the distractions of phones and cars!
one guy has a camera
And lots of starving, disease and violence! Living the life!
Well, except for whoever is likely buried under that pile of dirt
The older i get, the more the past feels like not so long ago. When i was a kid, the decade before i was born seemed like it was wildly in the past. But now as an adult i feel like even the early 1800s isn't really that long ago. I think part of this is from my mind expanding over time, but i also think part of it is media doing a better job of showing what the past was really like
Lol every single one of em looks ready to go
Is it bad that I don’t think that looks too bad?
You can't smell a photo.
You're probably comparing this to the way people still live in many parts of the world or have lived everywhere for most of human history, which is bad and you should feel bad
Pictures don't tell you the full story. You're probably thinking there's heating, food, etc which are probably in short supply.
Well… yes and no. You’ve seen the homeless encampments in, like, basically every single decent sized US city, right? I can’t imagine the conditions there would be better than the slums shown here.
In the 1880s Shantytowns were pretty common, and compared to those, these people live in a much better house. Hell, most of the frontier towns would look worse than this.
Yeah, they probably don't have heating other than woodfires, water or plumbing, but that's the same for a huge portion of the population anywhere in the 1880s. Of course, the big city comes with big city problems like disease, water, food, fuel that frontier towns didn't have to deal with (as much)
Also, how good are you at fighting?
Meh, my goal isn’t to win, just to make sure the other guy knows he has been in one.
Which is why I frequently practice bleeding on people while screaming "I'M SORRY, PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!!!"
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