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This is number 464 of 585 Primary Sources. « prev next » Related resources: City Problems: Poverty and Slums Related topics: NCHS-4-2 NCHS-4-2-A NCHS-4-2-B NCHS-4-2-C NCHS-4-3 NCHS-4-3-A NCHS-4-4 NCHS-4-4-B NCSS-1 NCSS-3 NCSS-5 APUSH-10-A APUSH-12-C APUSH-12-G APUSH-12-G-1 APUSH-12-G-3 APUSH-12-G-4		The Five Points Slum Primary source: George Catlin, "Five Points, 1827," lithograph. Caption: Five Points, the great slum of antebellum New York, was located at the convergence of Worth, Baxter, and Park Streets in present-day lower Manhattan. Its residents suffered terribly during the cholera epidemic of 1832. Courtesy of The New-York Historical Society.

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