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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. 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 ...

  4. Portal:Denmark/Selected biography/2011/47 - 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 ...

  5. Portal:Denmark/Selected biography/Archive/2007 - Wikipedia

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    Jacob Riis in 1906. 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 ...

  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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    Portable water stations are set up outside of the Jacob Riis Houses on Sept. 7, 2022 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/) The scare came to a merciful end Saturday, when city officials gave the all ...

  8. The Trench in Potter's Field - Wikipedia

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    The Trench in Potter's Field (c. 1890). The photograph depicts laborers loading coffins into an open trench at the city burial ground on Hart's Island.. The Trench in Potter's Field is a black and white photograph produced by Danish-American photographer Jacob A. Riis, probably in 1890, depicting a trench used as a mass grave for tenement residents who died during the period of mass ...

  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 ...