Jacob A. Riis
1889
Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement - Five cents a spot

Gelatin silver print
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York
Also available on Wikipedia Commons.
 
For an analysis of this photograph: Juliet Hacking (ed.), 2012, Photography: The Whole Story, (Prestel), pp. 154-155
 
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