The house on Henry Street / by Lillian D. Wald ; with illustrations from etchings and drawings by Abraham Phillips and from photographs.

  • Lillian Wald
Date:
1915
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Credit: The house on Henry Street / by Lillian D. Wald ; with illustrations from etchings and drawings by Abraham Phillips and from photographs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From the schoolroom where I had been giv¬ ing a lesson in bed-making, a little girl led me one drizzling March morning. She had told me of her sick mother, and gathering from her incoherent account that a child had been born, I caught up the paraphernalia of the bed-making lesson and carried it with me. The child led me over broken roadways,— there was no asphalt, although its use was well established in other parts of the city,— over dirty mattresses and heaps of refuse,—it was before Colonel Waring had shown the pos¬ sibility of clean streets even in that quarter,— between tall, reeking houses whose laden fire- escapes, useless for their appointed purpose, bulged with household goods of every descrip¬ tion. The rain added to the dismal appearance of the streets and to the discomfort of the crowds which thronged them, intensifying the odors
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