Sources of Images


 

 

Home Page: http://vm.uconn.edu/~pbaldwin/ward4.html

"A Fourth Ward Colony in the Bad Old Days," from Jacob A. Riis, The Battle With the Slum (New York: Macmillan, 1902), online at http://www.bartleby.com/175/1.html#Z4

Document 1.1:
Ward Boundaries and Population Density, 1870

From Seymour J. Mandelbaum, Boss Tweed's New York (New York: John R. Wiley & Sons, 1965)

Document 1.3:
Panorama Looking Northeast, 1865

Detail from J. Bachmann, "Birds Eye View of New York and Environs" (New York: Kimmel & Forster, 1865) online at Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps, 1849-1929 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html