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How the Other Half Lives
How the Other Half Lives
Author: Jacob A. Riis
Jaboc Riis's illustrated tour of New York's slums had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that changed the face of the city. In 1890, when the book was published, the Lower East Side was a landscape of teeming streets and filthy tenements crowded with immigrants living in dreadful conditions. "How the Other Half L...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780077230340
ISBN-10: 0077230345
Publication Date: 1997
Pages: 228
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Jacob Riis's famed 1890 photo-text addressed the problems of immigration, technological innovation, industry, and urban life at the dawn of the twentieth century. American studies instructor and freelance photographer David Leviatin edited this edition to be as faithful to the original text as possible; all interior photos are uncropped reprints made from Riis's original negatives, lantern slides, and prints.
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