The older i get, the more the past feels like not so long ago. When i was a kid, the decade before i was born seemed like it was wildly in the past. But now as an adult i feel like even the early 1800s isn't really that long ago. I think part of this is from my mind expanding over time, but i also think part of it is media doing a better job of showing what the past was really like

Is it bad that I don’t think that looks too bad?

Jacob Riis is the photographer and the slum is the Five Points.

Just living life without the distractions of phones and cars!

Lol every single one of em looks ready to go

Is it me, or do these people look really short?

Looking at the "ghost" on the left, I wonder how long they had to stand still for this picture to be taken.

And yet they're dressed nicer than most people on the street today. Or at least most people in the local Walmart.

This is definitely not a slum.