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| how the other half lives jacob riis: How the Other Half Lives Jacob Riis, 2011 |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: How the Other Half Lives Jacob August Riis, 1924 |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: How the Other Half Lives Jacob Riis, 2012-04-27 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. Over 100 photographs. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: How the Other Half Lives Jacob August Riis, 1890 43 illustrations with 17 halftones from photographs both full and half page; the remaining are from art copied mainly from photographs. The striking use of photography in the hands of a journalist using hand cameras and flash to light up difficult subjects. Very likely the earliest use of halftone photographs in social commentary. The halftone engravings are of poor quality (approx. 120 LPI) and heavily retouched, no engraving company is credited.--David Hanson documentation. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Riis, 2011 Jacob Riis's famed 1890 photo-text addressed the problems of tenement housing, immigration, and urban life and work at the beginning of the Progressive era. David Leviatin edited this complete edition of How the Other Half Lives to be as faithful to Riis's original text and photography as possible. Uncropped prints of Riis's original photographs replace the faded halftones and drawings from photographs that were included in the 1890 edition. Related documents added to the second edition include a stenographic report of one of Riis's lantern-slide lectures that demonstrates Riis's melodramatic techniques and the reaction of his audience, and five drawings that reveal the subtle but important ways Riis's photographs were edited when they were reinterpreted as illustrations in the 1890 edition. The book's provocative introduction now addresses Riis's ethnic and racial stereotyping and includes a map of New York's Lower East Side in the 1890s. A new list of illustrations and expanded chronology, questions for consideration, and selected bibliography provide additional support. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Riis, 2010-04-15 Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions. Jacob RiisÕs pioneering work of photojournalism takes its title from RabelaisÕs Pantagruel: ÒOne half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth; considering that no one has yet written of that Country.Ó An anatomy of New York CityÕs slums in the 1880s, it vividly brought home to its first readers through the powerful combination of text and images the squalid living conditions of Òthe other half,Ó who might well have inhabited another country. The book pricked the conscience of its readers and raised the tenement into a symbol of intransigent social difference. As Alan Trachtenberg makes clear in his introduction, it is a book that still speaks powerfully to us today of social injustice. Except for the modernization of spelling and punctuation, the John Harvard Library edition of How the Other Half Lives reproduces the text of the first published book version of November 1890. For this edition, prints have been made from RiisÕs original photographs now in the archives of the Museum of the City of New York. Endnotes aid the contemporary reader. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: Rediscovering Jacob Riis Bonnie Yochelson, Daniel Czitrom, 2014-08-18 Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was the author of How the Other Half Lives (1890). This study of his life and work includes excerpts from Riis s diary, chronicling romance, poverty, temptation, and, after many false starts, employment as a writer and reformer. In the second half, Yochelson describes how Riis used photography to shock and influence his readers. The authors describe Riis s intellectual education and discuss the influence of How the Other Half Lives on urban history. It shows that Riis argued for charity rather than social justice; but the fact that he understood what it was to be homeless did humanize Riis s work, and that work has continued to inspire reformers. Yochelson focuses on how Riis came to obtain his now famous images, how they were manipulated for publication, and their influence on the young field of photography. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: The Other Half Tom Buk-Swienty, 2008 A portrait of the late-nineteenth-century social reformer draws on previously unexamined diaries and letters to trace his immigration to America, work as a police reporter for the New York Tribune, and pivotal contributions as a muckraker and progressive. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: The Making of an American Jacob A. Riis, 2023-09-14 Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: The Children of the Poor Jacob August Riis, 1892 Jacob Riis was a Danish-born photojournalist who used his camera to draw attention to the plight of the poor. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: Jacob A. Riis Bonnie Yochelson, 2015 Danish-born Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914) found success in America as a reporter for the New York Tribune, first documenting crime and later turning his eye to housing reform. As tenement living conditions became unbearable in the wake of massive immigration, Riis and his camera captured some of the earliest, most powerful images of American urban poverty--Jacket. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: The Battle with the Slum Jacob August Riis, 1902 This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: Jacob Riis Janet B. Pascal, 2005-12-02 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 him into the worst of New York's ghettos and tenements. Appalled by the conditions he found there, he began to use the primitive new flash technology to photograph the dark places that had never before been so graphically exposed. The resulting book, How the Other Half Lives, brought to life an entire reform movement. Riis was a staunch ally in the young Theodore Roosevelt's battle to reform the New York police, breaking the brutal system of corruption and graft that had prevented the possibility of any real change in poor neighborhoods. Riis's activism involved him in such vital current controversies as hostility toward immigration, the growing gulf between rich and poor, the relative importance of heredity and environment, the need for adequate public schools, conflicts between social reform and personal freedom, and police brutality. But at the same time, his life raises some thought-provoking moral questions, because his compassion was flawed by an underlying prejudice; his writings are marred by a clear underlying conviction of the superiority of white Protestants, and he speaks with condescension and occasional scorn of other races and religions. He remained an active reformer all his life, founding a settlement house, writing several more books, most notably The Children of the Poor, and maintaining a taxing schedule of lecture tours. This biography includes a picture essay of Riis' photographs as well as, 35 black-and-white illustrations, a chronology, further reading, and an index. Oxford Portraits are informative and insightful biographies of people whose lives shaped their times and continue to influence ours. Based on the most recent scholarship, they draw heavily on primary sources, including writings by and about their subjects. Each book is illustrated with a wealth of photographs, documents, memorabilia, framing the personality and achievements of its subject against the backdrop of history. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: Children of the Tenements (Musaicum Christmas Specials) Jacob A. Riis, 2020-12-17 Musaicum Books presents the Musaicum Christmas Specials. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for this joyful and charming holiday season, for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. Children of the Tenements is a collection of stories and tales about orphans and poor children living in the slums of New York City. It provides an interesting insight into city life at the turn of the century and shows how the spirit of Christmas can make an impact even on the most unfortunate ones. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: How the Other Half Banks Mehrsa Baradaran, 2015-10-06 The United States has two separate banking systems today—one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks contributes to the growing conversation on American inequality by highlighting one of its prime causes: unequal credit. Mehrsa Baradaran examines how a significant portion of the population, deserted by banks, is forced to wander through a Wild West of payday lenders and check-cashing services to cover emergency expenses and pay for necessities—all thanks to deregulation that began in the 1970s and continues decades later. “Baradaran argues persuasively that the banking industry, fattened on public subsidies (including too-big-to-fail bailouts), owes low-income families a better deal...How the Other Half Banks is well researched and clearly written...The bankers who fully understand the system are heavily invested in it. Books like this are written for the rest of us.” —Nancy Folbre, New York Times Book Review “How the Other Half Banks tells an important story, one in which we have allowed the profit motives of banks to trump the public interest.” —Lisa J. Servon, American Prospect |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: Jacob Riis's Camera Alexis O'Neill, 2020-06-30 This revealing biography of a pioneering photojournalist and social reformer Jacob Riis shows how he brought to light one of the worst social justice issues plaguing New York City in the late 1800s--the tenement housing crisis--using newly invented flash photography. Jacob Riis was familiar with poverty. He did his best to combat it in his hometown of Ribe, Denmark, and he experienced it when he immigrated to the United States in 1870. Jobs for immigrants were hard to get and keep, and Jacob often found himself penniless, sleeping on the streets or in filthy homeless shelters. When he became a journalist, Jacob couldn't stop seeing the poverty in the city around him. He began to photograph overcrowded tenement buildings and their impoverished residents, using newly developed flash powder to illuminate the constantly dark rooms to expose the unacceptable conditions. His photographs inspired the people of New York to take action. Gary Kelley's detailed illustrations perfectly accompany Alexis O'Neill's engaging text in this STEAM title for young readers. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: The American Way of Poverty Sasha Abramsky, 2013-09-10 Abramsky shows how poverty - a massive political scandal - is dramatically changing in the wake of the Great Recession. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: Five Points Tyler Anbinder, 2012-06-05 The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words. So wrote a reporter about Five Points, the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-century America, the place where slumming was invented. All but forgotten today, Five Points was once renowned the world over. Its handful of streets in lower Manhattan featured America's most wretched poverty, shared by Irish, Jewish, German, Italian, Chinese, and African Americans. It was the scene of more riots, scams, saloons, brothels, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in the new world. Yet it was also a font of creative energy, crammed full of cheap theaters and dance halls, prizefighters and machine politicians, and meeting halls for the political clubs that would come to dominate not just the city but an entire era in American politics. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrified and inspired everyone who saw it. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America's immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich. Tyler Anbinder offers the first-ever history of this now forgotten neighborhood, drawing on a wealth of research among letters and diaries, newspapers and bank records, police reports and archaeological digs. Beginning with the Irish potato-famine influx in the 1840s, and ending with the rise of Chinatown in the early twentieth century, he weaves unforgettable individual stories into a tapestry of tenements, work crews, leisure pursuits both licit and otherwise, and riots and political brawls that never seemed to let up. Although the intimate stories that fill Anbinder's narrative are heart-wrenching, they are perhaps not so shocking as they first appear. Almost all of us trace our roots to once humble stock. Five Points is, in short, a microcosm of America. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: Exposing Hidden Worlds Michael Burgan, 2017-07-01 President Theodore Roosevelt called Jacob Riis the best American I ever knew. The pioneering photojournalist, an immigrant from Denmark, drew attention to the poverty and evils of slum life in the late 1800s. Riis won national acclaim when his photos illustrated his bestselling book How the Other Half Lives. The book focused on the difficult time immigrants faced as thousands of newcomers flooded into the United States each year. Riis called for reform and hoped to prod government officials to help the poor people who were forced to live under horrible conditions. The impact of Riis' photos came from capturing the poor and homeless as they lived and worked, with the subjects' eyes often staring directly into the camera. The great photographer Ansel Adams called them magnificent achievements in the field of humanistic photography. But the reforms that came from Riis' work have not eliminated urban poverty and homelessness, and important work remains to be done. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: Covering America Christopher B. Daly, 2018 Journalism is in crisis, with traditional sources of news under siege, a sputtering business model, a resurgence of partisanship, and a persistent expectation that information should be free. In Covering America, Christopher B. Daly places the current crisis within historical context, showing how it is only the latest challenge for journalists to overcome. In this revised and expanded edition, Daly updates his narrative with new stories about legacy media like the New York Times and the Washington Post, and the digital natives like the Huffington Post and Buzzfeed. A new final chapter extends the study of the business crisis facing journalism by examining the platform revolution in media, showing how Facebook, Twitter, and other social media are disrupting the traditional systems of delivering journalism to the public. In an era when the factual basis of news is contested and when the government calls journalists the enemy of the American people or the opposition party, Covering America brings history to bear on the vital issues of our times. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: Theodore Roosevelt: The Citizen Jacob August Riis, 2019-02-22 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York Jacob A. Riis, 2024-02-02 Step into the gritty reality of late 19th-century New York City with Jacob A. Riis' groundbreaking work, How the Other Half Lives: Jacob A. Riis' Glimpse into the Tenements of New York. Riis exposes the harsh living conditions of the city's impoverished residents, shedding light on a side of society often overlooked. Experience the raw emotions captured in Riis' photographs as he unveils the squalid tenements, overcrowded living spaces, and desperate struggles for survival. His vivid imagery brings to life the stories of those living in the shadows of opulence. But amidst the darkness, a glimmer of hope emerges. Riis' documentation sparks a conversation about social reform and the need for change. His work becomes a catalyst for action, igniting a movement to improve the living conditions of the city's most vulnerable populations. Yet, as you delve deeper into Riis' revelations, you can't help but wonder: Have we truly progressed, or are echoes of the past still reverberating in our modern society? Engage with Riis' narrative through concise, impactful paragraphs that transport you to a bygone era. His words and images serve as a reminder of the resilience of the human spirit and the power of storytelling to enact change. Now, as you contemplate the legacy of Riis' work, ask yourself: What can we learn from the past to shape a more just and equitable future? Take the first step in understanding the complexities of urban life in 19th-century New York. Embrace Riis' powerful storytelling by acquiring How the Other Half Lives: Jacob A. Riis' Glimpse into the Tenements of New York, and embark on a journey of empathy, awareness, and social consciousness. ``` |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: A Secret Gift Ted Gup, 2010-10-28 An inspiring account of America at its worst-and Americans at their best-woven from the stories of Depression-era families who were helped by gifts from the author's generous and secretive grandfather. Shortly before Christmas 1933 in Depression-scarred Canton, Ohio, a small newspaper ad offered $10, no strings attached, to 75 families in distress. Interested readers were asked to submit letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author's grandfather Sam Stone was inspired to place this ad and assist his fellow Cantonians as they prepared for the cruelest Christmas most of them would ever witness. Moved by the tales of suffering and expressions of hope contained in the letters, which he discovered in a suitcase 75 years later, Ted Gup initially set out to unveil the lives behind them, searching for records and relatives all over the country who could help him flesh out the family sagas hinted at in those letters. From these sources, Gup has re-created the impact that Mr B. Virdot's gift had on each family. Many people yearned for bread, coal, or other necessities, but many others received money from B. Virdot for more fanciful items-a toy horse, say, or a set of encyclopedias. As Gup's investigations revealed, all these things had the power to turn people's lives around- even to save them. But as he uncovered the suffering and triumphs of dozens of strangers, Gup also learned that Sam Stone was far more complex than the lovable- retiree persona he'd always shown his grandson. Gup unearths deeply buried details about Sam's life-from his impoverished, abusive upbringing to felonious efforts to hide his immigrant origins from U.S. officials-that help explain why he felt such a strong affinity to strangers in need. Drawing on his unique find and his award-winning reportorial gifts, Ted Gup solves a singular family mystery even while he pulls away the veil of eight decades that separate us from the hardships that united America during the Depression. In A Secret Gift, he weaves these revelations seamlessly into a tapestry of Depression-era America, which will fascinate and inspire in equal measure. Watch a Video |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: Jacob A. Riis Alexander Alland, 1993-01-01 Riis's images of the slums of New York have influenced every subsequent generation of photographers, while his insightful exploration of the problems of urban life continues to be educational for societies around the world. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: How the Other Half Lives Jacob Riis, 2017-06-15 Originally published in 1890, How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting 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 classes. This work inspired many reforms of working-class housing, both immediately after publication as well as making a lasting impact in today's society. Table of Contents PREFACE. INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. GENESIS OF THE TENEMENT. CHAPTER II. THE AWAKENING. CHAPTER III. THE MIXED CROWD. CHAPTER IV. THE DOWN TOWN BACK-ALLEYS. CHAPTER V. THE ITALIAN IN NEW YORK. CHAPTER VI. THE BEND. CHAPTER VII. A RAID ON THE STALE-BEER DIVES. CHAPTER VIII. THE CHEAP LODGING-HOUSES. CHAPTER IX. CHINATOWN. CHAPTER X. JEWTOWN. CHAPTER XI. THE SWEATERS OF JEWTOWN. CHAPTER XII. THE BOHEMIANS-TENEMENT-HOUSE CIGARMAKING. CHAPTER XIII. THE COLOR LINE IN NEW YORK. CHAPTER XIV. THE COMMON HERD. CHAPTER XV. THE PROBLEM OF THE CHILDREN. CHAPTER XVI. WAIFS OF THE CITY'S SLUMS. CHAPTER XVII. THE STREET ARAB. CHAPTER XVIII. THE REIGN OF RUM. CHAPTER XIX. THE HARVEST OF TARES. CHAPTER XX. THE WORKING GIRLS OF NEW YORK. CHAPTER XXI. PAUPERISM IN THE TENEMENTS. CHAPTER XXII. THE WRECKS AND THE WASTE. CHAPTER XXIII. THE MAN WITH THE KNIFE. CHAPTER XXIV. WHAT HAS BEEN DONE. CHAPTER XXV. HOW THE CASE STANDS. APPENDIX. STATISTICS BEARING ON THE TENEMENT PROBLEM. Footnotes |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: Empire of the Black Sea Duane W. Roller, 2020-04-22 What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over two hundred years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the early first century BC, it included much of the southern, eastern, and northern littoral, becoming one of the most important Hellenistic dynasties not founded by a successor of Alexander the Great. It also posed one of the greatest challenges to Roman imperial expansion in the east. Not until 63 BC, after many violent clashes, was Rome able to subjugate the kingdom and its last charismatic ruler Mithridates VI. This book provides the first general history, in English, of this important kingdom from its mythic origins in Greek literature (e.g., Jason and the Golden Fleece) to its entanglements with the late Roman Republic. Duane Roller presents its rulers and their complex relationships with the powers of the eastern Mediterranean and Near East, most notably Rome. In addition, he includes detailed discussions of Pontos' cultural achievements--a rich blend of Greek and Persian influences as well as its political and military successes, especially under Mithridates VI, who proved to be as formidable a foe to Rome as Hannibal. Previous histories of Pontos have focused almost exclusively on the career of its last ruler. Setting that famous reign in its wide historical context, Empire of the Black Sea is an engaging and definitive account of a powerful yet little-known ancient dynasty. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: How the Other Half Looks Sara Blair, 2020-07-14 New York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the other half, was also a crucible for experimentation in photography, film, literature, and visual technologies. This book takes an unprecedented look at the practices of observation that emerged from this critical site of encounter, showing how they have informed literary and everyday narratives of America, its citizens, and its possible futures. Taking readers from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Sara Blair traces the career of the Lower East Side as a place where image-makers, writers, and social reformers tested new techniques for apprehending America--and their subjects looked back, confronting the means used to represent them. This dynamic shaped the birth of American photojournalism, the writings of Stephen Crane and Abraham Cahan, and the forms of early cinema. During the 1930s, the emptying ghetto opened contested views of the modern city, animating the work of such writers and photographers as Henry Roth, Walker Evans, and Ben Shahn. After World War II, the Lower East Side became a key resource for imagining poetic revolution, as in the work of Allen Ginsberg and LeRoi Jones, and exploring dystopian futures, from Cold War atomic strikes to the death of print culture and the threat of climate change. How the Other Half Looks reveals how the Lower East Side has inspired new ways of looking-and looking back-that have shaped literary and popular expression as well as American modernity. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: How the Other Half Lives : Studies Among the Tenements of New York Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis, 1909 |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: Living Downtown Paul E. Groth, Paul Erling Groth, Paul Groth, 1994-01-01 From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residences constitute an essential housing resource, or are they, as charged, a public nuisance? Living Downtown, the first comprehensive social and cultural history of life in American residential hotels, adds a much-needed historical perspective to this ongoing debate. Creatively combining evidence from biographies, buildings and urban neighborhoods, workplace records, and housing policies, Paul Groth provides a definitive analysis of life in four price-differentiated types of downtown residence. He demonstrates that these hotels have played a valuable socioeconomic role as home to both long-term residents and temporary laborers. Also, the convenience of hotels has made them the residence of choice for a surprising number of Americans, from hobo author Boxcar Bertha to Calvin Coolidge. Groth examines the social and cultural objections to hotel households and the increasing efforts to eliminate them, which have led to the seemingly irrational destruction of millions of such housing units since 1960. He argues convincingly that these efforts have been a leading contributor to urban homelessness. This highly original and timely work aims to expand the concept of the American home and to recast accepted notions about the relationships among urban life, architecture, and the public management of residential environments. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: Progress and poverty Henry George, 1886 |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: The Tenement House Act New York (State)., 1903 |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: Dear Abby, I'm Gay Andrew E. Stoner, 2021-06-29 What role did America's newspaper advice columnists play in shaping and forming societal attitudes toward LGBTQ people throughout the 20th century? They served the dual function of offering advice and satisfying the curious. They also often provided the first mention of homosexuality outside of newspaper crime blotters. More than 100 million readers regularly read the columns. This book chronicles some of the most popular and widely circulated newspaper columns between the 1930s and 2000, including Ann Landers, Dear Abby, Helen Help Us!, Dr. Joyce Brothers, The Worry Clinic, Dear Meg, Ask Beth, and Savage Love. It examines the function of these columns regarding the place of LGBTQ people in America and what role they played in forming a public opinion. From these columns, we learn not only the framework of how straight Americans understood their homosexual brethren, but also how attitudes and feelings continued to evolve. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: Ten Days In a Mad-House Nellie Bly, 2021-02-09 She went undercover to expose an insane asylum's horrors. Now Nellie Bly is getting her due. ― Diane Bernard, The Washington Post It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world. Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book by American journalist Nellie Bly. It was initially published as a series of articles for the New York World; Bly later compiled the articles into a book, being published by Ian L. Munro in New York City in 1887. The book was based on articles written while Bly was on an undercover assignment for the New York World, feigning insanity at a women's boarding house, so as to be involuntarily committed to an insane asylum. She then investigated the reports of brutality and neglect at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island. The book received acclaim from critics at the time. Accumulation of her reportage and the release of her content brought her fame and led to a grand jury investigation and financial increase in the Department of Public Charities and Corrections. A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf! |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: How the Other Half Lives (Illustrated) Jacob Riis, 2019-11-13 AN HISTORICAL CLASSIC How the Other Half Lives is an overview of the terrible living conditions in New York City at the end of the 19th century. It is cited as an influence of later muckracking journalism. DETAILS: Includes the Original Illustrations |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: Angel Island Erika Lee, Judy Yung, 2010-08-30 From 1910 to 1940, over half a million people sailed through the Golden Gate, hoping to start a new life in America. But they did not all disembark in San Francisco; instead, most were ferried across the bay to the Angel Island Immigration Station. For many, this was the real gateway to the United States. For others, it was a prison and their final destination, before being sent home. In this landmark book, historians Erika Lee and Judy Yung (both descendants of immigrants detained on the island) provide the first comprehensive history of the Angel Island Immigration Station. Drawing on extensive new research, including immigration records, oral histories, and inscriptions on the barrack walls, the authors produce a sweeping yet intensely personal history of Chinese paper sons, Japanese picture brides, Korean students, South Asian political activists, Russian and Jewish refugees, Mexican families, Filipino repatriates, and many others from around the world. Their experiences on Angel Island reveal how America's discriminatory immigration policies changed the lives of immigrants and transformed the nation. A place of heartrending history and breathtaking beauty, the Angel Island Immigration Station is a National Historic Landmark, and like Ellis Island, it is recognized as one of the most important sites where America's immigration history was made. This fascinating history is ultimately about America itself and its complicated relationship to immigration, a story that continues today. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: Sugar in the Blood Andrea Stuart, 2013-01-22 In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a revolution was fully under way: the farming of sugar cane, and the swiftly increasing demands for sugar worldwide, would not only lift George Ashby from abject poverty and shape the lives of his descendants, but it would also bind together ambitious white entrepreneurs and enslaved black workers in a strangling embrace. Stuart uses her own family story—from the seventeenth century through the present—as the pivot for this epic tale of migration, settlement, survival, slavery and the making of the Americas. As it grew, the sugar trade enriched Europe as never before, financing the Industrial Revolution and fuelling the Enlightenment. And, as well, it became the basis of many economies in South America, played an important part in the evolution of the United States as a world power and transformed the Caribbean into an archipelago of riches. But this sweet and hugely profitable trade—“white gold,” as it was known—had profoundly less palatable consequences in its precipitation of the enslavement of Africans to work the fields on the islands and, ultimately, throughout the American continents. Interspersing the tectonic shifts of colonial history with her family’s experience, Stuart explores the interconnected themes of settlement, sugar and slavery with extraordinary subtlety and sensitivity. In examining how these forces shaped her own family—its genealogy, intimate relationships, circumstances of birth, varying hues of skin—she illuminates how her family, among millions of others like it, in turn transformed the society in which they lived, and how that interchange continues to this day. Shifting between personal and global history, Stuart gives us a deepened understanding of the connections between continents, between black and white, between men and women, between the free and the enslaved. It is a story brought to life with riveting and unparalleled immediacy, a story of fundamental importance to the making of our world. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: A Ten Years' War Jacob August Riis, 1900 |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: How the Other Half Lives Jacob Riis, 2022-01-13 Jacob Riis's famed 1890 photo-text addressed the problems of tenement housing, immigration, and urban life and work at the beginning of the Progressive era. David Leviatin edited this complete edition of How the Other Half Lives to be as faithful to Riis's original text and photography as possible. Uncropped prints of Riis's original photographs replace the faded halftones and drawings from photographs that were included in the 1890 edition. Related documents added to the second edition include a stenographic report of one of Riis's lantern-slide lectures that demonstrates Riis's melodramatic techniques and the reaction of his audience, and five drawings that reveal the subtle but important ways Riis's photographs were edited when they were reinterpreted as illustrations in the 1890 edition. The book's provocative introduction now addresses Riis's ethnic and racial stereotyping and includes a map of New York's Lower East Side in the 1890s. A new list of illustrations and expanded chronology, questions for consideration, and selected bibliography provide additional support. |
| how the other half lives jacob riis: The Shame of the Cities Lincoln Steffens, 1957-01-01 |
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HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES - Project Gutenberg
If it shall appear that the sufferings and the sins of the “other half,” and the evil they breed, are but as a just punishment upon the community that gave it no other choice, it will be because that is …
How the Other Half Lives - Wikipedia
How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New …
Jacob Riis | Biography, How the Other Half Lives, Books, …
May 22, 2025 · Jacob Riis (1849–1914) was an American reporter, social reformer, and photographer. His book How the Other Half Lives (1890) shocked readers with his descriptions …
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New …
Apr 21, 2008 · How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob August Riis
Riis and Reform - Jacob Riis: Revealing "How the Other Half Lives ...
When Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives in 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau ranked New York as the most densely populated city in the United States—1.5 million inhabitants. Riis …
HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES - Archive.org
Apr 26, 2014 · The Project Gutenberg EBook of How the Other Half Lives, by Jacob A. Riis This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
Jacob Riis: Revealing “How the Other Half Lives” - Library of Congress
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 …
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Pioneering Social Reformer Jacob Riis Revealed "How The Other Half ...
May 27, 2014 · Jacob A. Riis, Museum of the City of New York. In 1870, when Jacob August Riis immigrated to America from Denmark on the steamship Iowa, he rode in steerage with nothing …
How the Other Half Lives - Smarthistory
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 …
HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES - Project Gutenberg
If it shall appear that the sufferings and the sins of the “other half,” and the evil they breed, are but as a just punishment upon the community that gave it no other choice, it will be because that is …
How the Other Half Lives - Wikipedia
How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New …
Jacob Riis | Biography, How the Other Half Lives, Books, …
May 22, 2025 · Jacob Riis (1849–1914) was an American reporter, social reformer, and photographer. His book How the Other Half Lives (1890) shocked readers with his descriptions …
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New …
Apr 21, 2008 · How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob August Riis
Riis and Reform - Jacob Riis: Revealing "How the Other Half Lives ...
When Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives in 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau ranked New York as the most densely populated city in the United States—1.5 million inhabitants. Riis …
HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES - Archive.org
Apr 26, 2014 · The Project Gutenberg EBook of How the Other Half Lives, by Jacob A. Riis This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
Jacob Riis: Revealing “How the Other Half Lives” - Library of Congress
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 …
How the Other Half Lives : Jacob A. Riis - Archive.org
Jan 26, 2025 · How the Other Half Lives Bookreader Item Preview remove-circle Internet Archive's in-browser bookreader "theater" requires JavaScript to be enabled.
Pioneering Social Reformer Jacob Riis Revealed "How The Other Half ...
May 27, 2014 · Jacob A. Riis, Museum of the City of New York. In 1870, when Jacob August Riis immigrated to America from Denmark on the steamship Iowa, he rode in steerage with nothing …
How the Other Half Lives - Smarthistory
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 …
