Children of the Tenements
Jacob A. Riis
Read by Judi Mason
This is a collection of vignettes about poverty in New York City in the early 1900s. Jacob Riis was a police reporter and a sociologist. He made human the faces of extreme poverty and did not limit his often-wrenching prose to children. He included old people and animals, and described diverse cultures. These stories evoke both laughter and tears. (9 hr 41 min)
Chapters
| Preface | 1:55 | Read by Judi Mason |
| The Rent Baby | 18:01 | Read by Judi Mason |
| A Story of Bleeker Street | 11:37 | Read by Judi Mason |
| The Kid Hangs Up His Stocking | 10:38 | Read by Judi Mason |
| The Slipper-Maker's Fast | 4:57 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Death Comes to Cat Alley | 5:44 | Read by Judi Mason |
| A Proposal on the Elevated | 8:10 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Little Will's Message | 17:15 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Lost Children | 14:55 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Paolo's Awakening | 22:30 | Read by Judi Mason |
| The Little Dollar's Christmas Journey | 21:28 | Read by Judi Mason |
| The Kid | 4:51 | Read by Judi Mason |
| When the Letter Came | 6:30 | Read by Judi Mason |
| The Cat Took the Kosher Meat | 5:54 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Nibsy's Christmas | 19:10 | Read by Judi Mason |
| In the Children's Hospital | 13:17 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Nigger Martha's Wake | 9:53 | Read by Judi Mason |
| What the Christmas Sun Saw in the Tenements | 25:03 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Midwinter in New York | 37:20 | Read by Judi Mason |
| A Chip from the Maelstrom | 5:34 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Sarah Joyce's Husbands | 4:12 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Merry Christmas in the Tenements | 1:07:23 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Abe's Game of Jacks | 5:36 | Read by Judi Mason |
| A Little Picture | 2:37 | Read by Judi Mason |
| A Dream of the Woods | 9:15 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Twas 'Liza's Doings | 18:56 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Heroes Who Fight Fire | 59:46 | Read by Judi Mason |
| John Gavin, Misfit | 7:20 | Read by Judi Mason |
| A Heathen Baby | 7:35 | Read by Judi Mason |
| The Christening in Bottle Alley | 7:35 | Read by Judi Mason |
| In the Mulberry Street Court | 4:03 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Difficulties of a Deacon | 11:34 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Fire in the Barracks | 3:57 | Read by Judi Mason |
| War on the Goats | 7:16 | Read by Judi Mason |
| He Kept His Tryst | 5:52 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Rover's Last Fight | 9:22 | Read by Judi Mason |
| How Jim Went to the War | 17:26 | Read by Judi Mason |
| A Backwoods Hero | 8:23 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Jack's Sermon | 13:48 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Skippy of Scrabble Alley | 10:50 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Making a Way Out of the Slum | 34:15 | Read by Judi Mason |