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Lifetime: 1849 - 1914 Passed: ≈ 110 years ago

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Jacob A. Riis

Books by Jacob A. Riis

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York Cover image

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 Cover image

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...