This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and of early American

This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and a monument of ear

Jacob Riis's famed 1890 photo-text addressed the problems of tenement housing, immigration, and urban life and work at the beginning of the Progressive era. Dav

Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was the author of How the Other Half Lives (1890). This study of his life and work includes excerpts from Riis’s diary, chronicling rom