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Katie, photographed by Jacob Riis at the West 52nd Street Industrial School. Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Roger William Riis. Jacob Riis, Berenice Abbott, Alfred Stieglitz, Ceramic Inspiration, History Of Photography, Lower East Side, Newsies, Social Change, Vintage Photographs

Half the world, journalist Jacob Riis once said, doesn’t know how the other half lives, and it doesn’t know because it doesn’t care. Riis, a social reformer, author and newspaper reporter, used his work to make society take notice, exposing the squalid living and working conditions in late 19th-century New York during the height of …

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