Timeline
Lifetime:
1849 -
1914
Passed: ≈
110 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Jacob A. Riis
Books by Jacob A. Riis
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
History
Non-Fiction
19th century
Poverty
Slums
New York City
Urban poverty
Working class
Immigration
Social reform
Tenements
Photojournalism
Muckraking
Living conditions
Jacob Riis's *How the Other Half Lives* is a groundbreaking work of photojournalism that exposed the harsh realities of poverty and squalor in late 19th-century New York City. Through poignant photographs and firsthand accounts, Riis documented the c...
Out of Mulberry Street
These riveting accounts by Jacob A. Riis are from the late 19th century, when lower Manhattan was teeming with struggling, near-starving immigrants crammed into wretched fire-prone tenements. Riis writes compassionately of these people who were never...