‘...only 10 years after it was completed Jacob Riis reported that 61 of 138 children born there in a three-year period had died before the age of one. ... The Harper's article says there was a frontage of 30 feet on the street. The building was 300 feet deep and "is divided practically into two buildings by a partition wall extending all the way from front to rear". One division had a court on the west side and the other had a court on the east side. These "courts were", in fact, alleys. The ground floor apartments visited by the reporter were "small, dark and dirty" "at noon on a cloudy day" were "as dark as early evening elsewhere". The upper floors were brighter but just as small and dirty. ...’ http://www.maggieblanck.com/NewYork/Life.html

#OTD in 1879
‘Entrance to an Alleyway, Cherry Street’ *Harper's Weekly*, March 29, 1879
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👉ALT

The lost doors of #Leith
#tenementlife
#FilmPhotography
#Filmisnotdead

man writes report for tenement retrofit plan in shadow beside a top floor close window

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#OTD in 1877
‘The gossips’
*Harpers Weekly*, September 8, 1877
Collection of Maggie Land Blanck
#manhattan #LowerEastSide #illustration #illustrationart #tenements #tenementlife #streetlife

#OTD in 1882
‘Women's Day at A New York Swimming Bath Drawn by H. A. Ogden’
*Harpers Weekly*, Sept. 2, 1882
Collection of Maggie Land Blanck
#illustration #illustrationart #illustration #illustrationartists #drawings #HAOgden #tenements #TenementLife #NewYorkCity #HarpersWeekly

#OTD in 1889
Tenement life
‘A BOARD OF HEALTH DOCTOR IN A NEW YORK TENEMENT’ *Harper's Weekly*, August 10, 1889
Collection of Maggie Land Blanck
#illustration #illustrationart #tenements #tenementlife #healthcare #BoardOfHealth

#OTD in 1872
‘The women's day at the free bath-houses - waiting for admittance.’
*Harper's Weekly* August 3, 1872
Collection of Maggie Land Blanck
#illustration #illustrationart #NewYorkCity #tenementlife #bathhouses

#OTD in 1885 - beating the heat
‘On the Roof of a Tenement House’
*Harper's Weekly*, August 1, 1885
Collection of Maggie Land Blanck
#illustration #illustrationart #tenements #tenementlife #rooftops #heatwave

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Some more wonderful Glasgow Tenement tiles. These are from a close in North Kelvinside.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #tenement #glasgowtenement #tenementlife #tenementtiles #ceramics #tiles #tiling #tiledesign #design #architecturephotography

Love this ghost sign painted on a wall beside the entrance to a tenement on West Princes Street in the Woodlands area of Glasgow. It's repeated again on the neighbouring close as well.

Cont./

#glasgow #glasgowhistory #tenement #glasgowtenements #tenementlife #ghostsign #woodlands

I don't know quite what was creating this silhouette on a window of a Glasgow tenement that I came across last night, but whatever it is, it sure looks like they're planning something!

#glasgow #silhouette #window #windowswednesday
#tenement #tenementlife #aliens

Experience of energy transitions – a historical view from the tenements of Glasgow If it feels like deja vu, it’s because we’ve changed energy types before

"The home I was born in was a tenement in Govan, Glasgow. It was a ‘room and kitchen’, heated by a coal fire in the ‘living’ room. The bedroom and toilet – we had an indoor toilet – had no heating except that which emanated from the solitary coal fire in the house."

#Glasgow
#Govan
#TenementLife

‘...only 10 years after it was completed Jacob Riis reported that 61 of 138 children born there in a three-year period had died before the age of one. ... The Harper's article says there was a frontage of 30 feet on the street. The building was 300 feet deep and "is divided practically into two buildings by a partition wall extending all the way from front to rear". One division had a court on the west side and the other had a court on the east side. These "courts were", in fact, alleys. The ground floor apartments visited by the reporter were "small, dark and dirty" "at noon on a cloudy day" were "as dark as early evening elsewhere". The upper floors were brighter but just as small and dirty. ...’ http://www.maggieblanck.com/NewYork/Life.html

#OTD in 1879
‘Entrance to an Alleyway, Cherry Street’ *Harper's Weekly*, March 29, 1879
🧵👇
#tenements #tenementlife #LowerEastSide #Manhattan
👉ALT

ohhhh I do

(years of #tenementlife will never allow me to be complacent about this privilege)