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- Smarthistory – How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis documented the slums of New York, what he deemed the world of the “other half,” teeming with immigrants, disease, and abuse A police reporter and social reformer, Riis became intimately familiar with the perils of tenement living and sought to draw attention to the horrendous conditions
- Jacob Riis: Revealing “How the Other Half Lives”
Jacob A Riis (1849–1914) was a journalist and social reformer who publicized the crises in housing, education, and poverty at the height of European immigration to New York City in the late nineteenth century
- Jacob Riis LP_NEW - cleverstudents. com
Today we are going to analyze four photographs by Jacob Riis that portray poor immigrants living in New York City from 1887-1892 and answer the question: What were conditions like in New York City tenements in the late 19th century?
- Jacob Riis – The Story of America’s Most Famous Immigrant of the Late . . .
Riis emigrated to the United States following an unhappy love affair, arriving in New York in July, 1870, at age 21, seeking employment as a carpenter, almost penniless and armed only with a letter of introduction to the Danish consul
- Microsoft Word - HIS212_Jacob-Riis-The-Mixed-Crowd. docx
Jacob A Riis (1849-1914) When once I asked the agent of a notorious Fourth Ward alley how many people might be living in it I was told: One hundred and forty families, one hundred Irish, thirty-eight Italian, and two that spoke the German tongue Barring the agent herself, there was not a native-born individual in the court
- Jacob Riis: The Social Reformer Who Exposed the Dark Side of Urban Life
Jacob Riis was a pioneering social reformer, journalist, and photographer whose groundbreaking work illuminated the harsh realities of urban poverty in 19th-century New York City After enduring poverty and hardship as a Danish immigrant, Riis used his firsthand experiences to advocate for the city's most vulnerable residents
- Introduction: Jacob Riis and His Work - Museums for Digital Learning
Newspaper reporter Jacob August Riis (1849-1914), himself an immigrant from Denmark, began documenting the unregulated housing conditions in New York City in the 1880s to make poverty visible to the middle and upper classes and to shock his audience into action
- Immigration Urbanization (1880-1920)
Based on Riis’s writing, how does he feel about different immigrant groups? How does this affect the way we view his photographs? Does it change whether or not we can consider them good evidence?
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