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Jacob August Riis (/ r iː s / REESS; May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, "muck-raking" journalist, and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in the United States of America at the turn of the twentieth century. [ 1 ]
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).
Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street is a black and white photograph produced by Danish-American photojournalist and social reformer Jacob Riis in 1888. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The photograph was possibly not taken by Riis but instead by one of his assistant photographers, Henry G. Piffard or Richard Hoe Lawrence. [ 3 ]
Robert Owen (/ ˈ oʊ ɪ n /; 14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858) was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist, political philosopher and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the co-operative movement.
Gannon and Hands were praised by the social reformer Jacob Riis in his book A Ten Years' War (1900) for their light and airy buildings; [2] he credited them with solving "the problem of building a decent tenement on a twenty-five-foot lot"—a problem he admitted that he himself had thought insoluble. [3]
Mary Phillips married widower Jacob Riis in 1907, as his second wife. [11] [12] They lived on a farm in New England, which she inherited, while the rest of the Riis estate was divided among his children. [8] [5] She was widowed after seven years, in 1914. [13] She died in a nursing home in New York City in 1967, aged 90 years. [3]
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Early supporters who joined her on opening day included social reformers Jacob Riis, Felix Adler, and Carl Shurz. [1] Greenwich Village was a mixed area at the time. Italian immigrants began crowding out the existing Irish population. Many homes lacked running water. There was a high infant death rate and poor education.