#17 Lodgers in a crowded and squalid tenement, which rented for five cents a spot on Bayard Street. Twelve men and women slept in a room less than 13 feet long, 1890

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#17 Lodgers in a crowded and squalid tenement, which rented for five cents a spot on Bayard Street. Twelve men and women slept in a room less than 13 feet long, 1890

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#17 Lodgers in a crowded and squalid tenement, which rented for five cents a spot on Bayard Street. Twelve men and women slept in a room less than 13 feet long, 1890

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