1/2 JACOB RIIS'S CAMERA by , illos. Gary Kelley ( ). They say a picture is worth 1000 words. This compelling shows how Riis used photography to cast the bright light of truth on the terrible conditions of NYC tenement life.

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Cholera's grim warning for New York City tenement landlords https://t.co/wy0PFUHzpv

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These two small paintings are now for sale through my Big Cartel site - link in my bio , both oil on mount board 14.5 cm x 21 cm £250 each Brexship and The Tenement Birdcage

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19 is Margaret Barry. Born in Cork tenements to a musical family with Traveller/Mincéir heritage, she taught herself banjo, left home at 16, busked around Ireland, moved to London, and influenced an entire generation of ballad singers, including Luke Kelly.

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David Rhind's 1849 feu plan for Pollokshields, commissioned by Sir John Maxwell, 10th Baronet of Pollok. The plan didn't quite pan out according to Rhind's vision though the pattern of villas west of Shields Rd and tenements to the east.

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Coll Hamilton uses pastel like no other! Sketchy and red his beautiful tenements really capture the essence of Glasgow!

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There's no actual legal right of way there, its just a path/desire line that became formalised (i.e. tarmacd) over the years and didn't actually exist until the 18th c tenement at 151/153 was demolished in the 70s. The stretch of London Rd Glickmans is on is Lamb's Pass

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Tenements in Fotheringay Road, Glasgow. Terregles Avenue in foreground. (1908) Pic: Glasgow City Archives.

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1910 & from the rear window of his studio on West 23rd Street, John Sloan paints vignettes of daily life from the tenement rooftops. A trainer & his boy watch their pigeons take flight high above the city noise. Behind, you can glimpse the construction of Penn Station.

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Coll Hamilton's pastel and charcoal sketches are just 👌 💯💯

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Udo J. Keppler was born 1872. The first chromolithograph, "The Tenament—A Menace to All", shows the spectres of alcoholism, gambling, prostitution, opium dens, crime, and Death materializing from the tenement building.

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A familiar sight for many of our Glasgow followers! "Tenement, West End" by Coll Hamilton. Last in the series! In the gallery and online https://t.co/xRejDneWhK

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Diagrams for the construction of steel framed tenement flats (1934)

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I'm lost in my head again
I'm sorry I don't laugh at the right times
Is this what it feels like?
I've got my heart
Strung up on clothing lines
Through tenement windows
In mid-July

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Udo J. Keppler was born 1872. The first chromolithograph shows the spectres of alcoholism, gambling, prostitution, opium dens, crime, and even Death materializing from the tenement building.

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ゆうれい長屋 Tenement house of ghost
2015
アクリル、紙 acrylic on paper
145×180mm

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You will never find a more wretched hive of scum & villainy than in a Build lots, +20 workers for each!

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