"Making Sense of Documentary Photography," by James Curtis

Click this link to go to historian James Curtis' essay "Making Sense of Documentary Photography"

Michigan State Univ Virtual Exhibition: Immigration and Caricature

Click here to go to the Immigration and Caricature Exhibition

Note that there are three sections: (I) Welcome to All; (II) Caricature and Stereotype; (III) Assimilation and Acceptance.

Links to Digitized Photo Exhibit, Harvard Univ Open Library

Click here for the Children's Aid Society Five Points (Italian) House Photographs
There are 24 photos which may be scrolled by clicking the left and right arrows above the frame once you're on the site.

Click here for an explanation of the Children's Aid Society initiative

Jacob Riis, "The Bend" (1890)

Jacob Riis, "Street Arabs" (1890)

Jacob Riis, "Scene in Tenement" (1890)

Jacob Riis, "Bandit's Roost"

Lewis Hine, Street Scene

Lewis Hine, "New York Tenement" (1910)

Lewis Hine, "Homework on Pants" (1905)

Lewis Hine, "Making Pillow Lace" (1911)

Lewis Hine, "Italian Family...Lost Baggage" (1905)

Lewis Hine, Climbing into America (1905)

Lewis Hine, "Boy Carrying Homework, New York Sweatshop"

Lewis Hine, "German Steelworker," Pittsburgh 1908-09

Lewis Hine, "Italian Madonna," Ellis Island, 1905

Lewis Hine, "Polish Steelworker"

Lewis Hine, Portrait of an Immigrant, Ellis Island (1915)