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Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters (Church Corner). New York, NY, USA, c.1889.

Three homeless boys do a poor job of pretending to be asleep. Nevertheless, their ragged, grimy condition offers evidence that they are not pretending to be desperately poor. Jacob A. Riis Collection (#122), Museum of the City of New York.

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Uploaded on August 5, 2012
Taken in August 2012