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  • MAP,19TH CENTURY,NYC,NEW YORK
  • SISTERS OF CHARITY,NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL
  • JACOB RIIS,POVERTY,19TH CENTURY,NEW YORK
  • SISTERS OF CHARITY,NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL
  • JACOB RIIS,POVERTY,19TH CENTURY,NEW YORK
  • JACOB RIIS,POVERTY,19TH CENTURY,NEW YORK
  • JACOB RIIS,POVERTY,19TH CENTURY,NEW YORK
  • JACOB RIIS,POVERTY,19TH CENTURY,NEW YORK
  • SISTERS OF CHARITY,NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL
  • JACOB RIIS,POVERTY,19TH CENTURY,NEW YORK
  • JACOB RIIS,POVERTY,19TH CENTURY,NEW YORK
An early planning map of lower Manhattan circa 1790. You can see how the city was concentrated on the southern tip at the time. Some expansion northward had occurred by 1817, but the real push came at the turn of the century, when the city's population swelled to over 2 million.
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