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How the Other Half Lives - Jacob A. Riis

Name: How the Other Half Lives - Jacob A. Riis
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How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis is a journalistic record of New York’s slums at the turn of the century. This paperback edition is published by Dover Publications Inc.

Key details

Author: Jacob A. Riis
Subtitle: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
ISBN: 9780486220123

Synopsis

Presented as a landmark of social thought and early American photography, this work documents the filth and degradation of New York’s slums at the turn of the century. Jacob A. Riis, writing as a photographer, journalist and reformer, sets down a stark visual and written account of life in the tenements.

More than 100 grim scenes captured on film are used to show a struggle for survival, creating a direct and unflinching record of conditions in the city. Suitable for readers interested in social history and documentary photography.

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Genre

Non-Fiction

Author

Jacob A. Riis

Type

bc paperback

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