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Slum in New York City, USA, 1888 (lemmy.world)
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[-] Glowstick@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Your frame of reference gets larger, so you better understand the lengths of time. My Great Great Grandfather lived in the 1800's, so that's just 3.5 lifetimes ago. But, even though things may look similar, and they faced many of the same challenges, their day-to-day lives were completely different than ours.

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 19 points 1 month ago

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

[-] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

You can't smell a photo.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

Pictures don't tell you the full story. You're probably thinking there's heating, food, etc which are probably in short supply.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Also, how good are you at fighting?

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 13 points 1 month ago

Meh, my goal isn’t to win, just to make sure the other guy knows he has been in one.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Which is why I frequently practice bleeding on people while screaming "I'M SORRY, PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!!!"

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 2 points 1 month ago

New Tactic Unlocked

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

In the 1880s Shantytowns were pretty common, and compared to those, these people live in a much better house. Hell, most of the frontier towns would look worse than this.

Yeah, they probably don't have heating other than woodfires, water or plumbing, but that's the same for a huge portion of the population anywhere in the 1880s. Of course, the big city comes with big city problems like disease, water, food, fuel that frontier towns didn't have to deal with (as much)

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Well… yes and no. You’ve seen the homeless encampments in, like, basically every single decent sized US city, right? I can’t imagine the conditions there would be better than the slums shown here.

[-] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 month ago

You're probably comparing this to the way people still live in many parts of the world or have lived everywhere for most of human history, which is bad and you should feel bad

[-] Legonatic@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

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

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 15 points 1 month ago

Just living life without the distractions of phones and cars!

[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago

And lots of starving, disease and violence! Living the life!

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Well, except for whoever is likely buried under that pile of dirt

[-] nao@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

one guy has a camera

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Horses smell much worse than cars, and take a lot more work too.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

Lol every single one of em looks ready to go

[-] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

They usually only had one pair of clothes though.

[-] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Living the dream.

[-] QProphecy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

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

[-] CliveRosfield@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Everybody used to be shorter on average, yes.

[-] nao@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 3 points 1 month ago

In the late 1880s, not really all that long with fairly recent cameras. https://time.com/4568032/smile-serious-old-photos/

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

This is definitely not a slum.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'm not saying youre wrong, but why do you say that?

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