Saloon in the Slums

Saloon in the Slums

"The open mouth of a saloon called seductively to passengers to enter and annihilate sorrow or create rage" (Crane, 39).

This photo almost directly correlates with this image because it shows how the poor of the 1890s were controlled by saloons due to alcoholism and it being one of the only things the poor did as amusement. Crane describes how this saloon "seductively" called out to the passengers giving the reader the idea that the saloon acted as a living, important thing in the lives of the poor. It is also interesting to note that it looks as if everyone is annihilating "sorrow" or creating "rage".

Jacob Riis

Riis, Jacob. A downtown "morgue" (an unlicensed saloon). "How the other Half Lives." 1890.Photograph.

Vincze Miklos

Adam Monticollo

1890s

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