How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

How the Other Half Lives

Jacob Riis

256 pages first pub 1890 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Jacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the twentieth century, when as many as 300,000 people per square mile were crowded into the tenements of New York's Lower East Side. The filth and degrada...

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