How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

By Riis, Jacob A.

Book Id: WPLBN0002951942
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File Size: 254.62 MB
Reproduction Date: 2011

Title:	How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
Author:	Riis, Jacob A.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, History, Politics
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
Historic Publication Date:	1890
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago A. Rii, B. J. (1890). How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the slums to New York City’s upper and middle class.

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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History, Politics