This picture shows an Italian mother and her child living in a slum on Jersey Street in New York. A rag-picker was a person who made money by rummaging through litter on the streets, often finding bits of cloth or cardboard or anything else they could use to sell and make money, This image shows just how hard it can be for a lot of the poorer immigrants to make money and get a living for themselves in America when first coming over. You can also see how bad the living conditions of many were, as in those bags are the materials she has collected to sell, as well as the barrels which could be where she stored food. You can assume for the drawing that this place is a very unsafe place to raise a child. The wooden ladder could lead to a bedroom of sorts as in the picture there is no where for them to sleep. There is no man with them which could lead to questions as whether they came here alone or if the man is out picking rags whilst she looked after the child.
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