Lime-Kiln Man
Henry Egbert Jr. American
Lithographer Nagel & Weingärtner American
Publisher Dewitt & Davenport American
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A man dressed in ragged clothes carries a rolled cloth or paper under one arm. This is a rare record of a homeless New Yorker of the mid-nineteenth century, his name a reflection of the fact that he slept in a vacant lime-kiln on New York's waterfront near Broadway in lower Manhattan.