America The Beautiful

"kneepants" at 45 cents a dozen-a Ludlow Street sweater's shop. (bangs and beard look familiar?)

mad hobo style, son

Police Station lodgers, Madison. (men slept in piles on the floor at the police station. woke up to posture and smoke pipe.)

check out more photos from the New York post-civil war era at http://www.authentichistory.com/postcivilwar/riis/10.html

photo credits-How The Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis