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This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Jacob Riis - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in the field, 55 photographs presented chronologically…
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Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was born in Denmark and emigrated to America at the age of 21. After several years of poverty, he found work as a police reporter, which took…
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Jacob Riis
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
How the Other Half Lives occupies a premier place on a small list of American books-along with Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Jungle, Silent Spring, The Feminine Mystique, and Unsafe at…
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1904 Edition.
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 photography…
Jacob a Riis
As in the first edition, my goal for this second edition has been to produce a text that resembles, as closely as possible, the original 1890 edition… The only substantive…
In this is the classic indictment of slum life, written by one of the most famous reformers of the nineteenth century. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements…
Jacob August Riis was a Danish-American social reformer, muckraking journalist and social documentary photographer.
Reproduction of the original: The Children of the Poor by Jacob A. Riis
Reproduction of the original: A Ten Years War by Jacob A. Riis
Reproduction of the original: The Battle with the Slum by Jacob A. Riis
Theodore Roosevelt-The Citizen (1904) was written by Jacob Riis, a journalist and good friend of Roosevelt’s. Riis explained that his book was not going to be a formal biography as…
Journalist Jacob Riis wrote his autobiography, The Making of an American, in 1901, a personal story about his and America’s past.
2015 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published in 1890, this is the classic indictment of slum life, written…
A classic early example of muck-racking journalism, or reporting by reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt, How the Other Half Lives is a chronicle of…
Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, muckraking journalist and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform…
(LARGE PRINT EDITION) This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
Jacob A Riis
THERE is another line not always so readily drawn in the tenements, yet the real boundary line of the Other Half: the one that defines the flat. The law does…
Jacob August Riis
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by…
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
Jacob a Riis,David Leviatin
Originally published: New York: Scribner, 1890.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
A Ten Years' War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human…
