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  2. Jacob Riis - Wikipedia

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    Jacob Riis Triangle, at Babbage and 116 Streets, 85 Ave, [86] Richmond Hill, Queens [87] P.S. 126 The Jacob Riis Community School, on Catherine Street in New York City, is a public PK-5 school [88] From 1915 until 2002, Jacob Riis Public School on South Throop Street in Chicago was a high school operated by the Chicago School Board. [89]

  3. How the Other Half Lives - Wikipedia

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    Original Cover of 1890 edition Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street (1888). 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 York City slums in the 1880s.

  4. "I Scrubs" - Wikipedia

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    Little Katie from the W. 52nd Street Industrial School, is a black and white photograph taken by Danish American photographer and social reformer Jacob Riis, c. 1890. It was included in his second book, The Children of the Poor (1892), a follow-up to How the Other Half Lives (1890).

  5. Street Arabs in the Area of Mulberry Street - Wikipedia

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    Street Arabs in the Area of Mulberry Street (c. 1890) by Jacob Riis. Street Arabs in the Area of Mulberry Street is a black and white photograph taken by Danish American photographer Jacob Riis, probably in 1890. The designation of street arabs was given back then to homeless children.

  6. Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a Spot

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    Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a Spot (1889) by Jacob Riis. Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a Spot is a black and white photograph taken by Danish-American photographer Jacob Riis, in 1889. It was included in his photographic book How the Other Half Lives, published in 1890. [1]

  7. NYC’s Riis Houses on edge after arsenic scare, week without ...

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    Residents receive water and other items outside of the Jacob Riis Houses on Sept. 7, 2022 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/) Trust in authorities across the complex evaporated.

  8. Portal:Denmark/Selected biography - Wikipedia

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    Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914), a Danish-American muckraker journalist, photographer, and social reformer, was born in Ribe, Denmark. He is known for his dedication to using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the less fortunate in New York City , which was the subject of most of his prolific writings and ...

  9. Coast Guard suspends search for missing teens off New York ...

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    The boys were swimming at Jacob Riis Park in Queens when witnesses say they saw a huge wave overtake them and the two never resurfaced. Rescuers from the New York Fire Department were deployed ...