Jacob riis

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 …

Jacob Riis - American Image by Martin W. Sandler

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A gang of boys in Mullen's Alley at 32 Cherry Street, New York City. c1888, by Jacob Riis.

An online presentation of photographs and illustrations from the Community Service Society at Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

In 1900, 18 percent of all American workers were under the age of 16.

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Through photos and writings documenting poverty in New York City in the late 19th century, a Danish immigrant became a famous campaigner against slum housing. Two new books tell the story of Jacob Riis, a social reformer and natural showman.

A man and three boys sleeping on the porch of a building. New York; documentary; tenements; nineteenth century; reform movements; housing conditions

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Jacob Riis - American Image by Martin W. Sandler

Here are Bunks in a 7 cent lodging House called "Happy Jack's Canvas Palace" on Pell Street in Lower Manhattan...c.1890

One night Riis was bedding down in the Church Street Station Lodging-room when his gold locket keepsake was stolen and his dog clubbed to death.

Jacob August Riis. Bohemian Cigarmakers at Work in Their Tenement. 1889. Gelatin silver print, printed 1957. 6 3/16 × 4 13/16" (15.7 × 12.2 cm). Gift of the Museum of the City of New York. 337.1964. Photography

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A young child leaning against the wall in a hallway, near a set of stairs. New York; documentary; tenements; housing conditions; nineteenth century; reform movements