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The book version of Riis' work was published in January 1890 as How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York. [ 20 ] The title of the book is a reference to a sentence by French writer François Rabelais , who wrote in Pantagruel : "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives" ("la moitié du monde ne sait ...
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]
Some people lean from the windows, seemingly interested, at the right, while at the background clothing hangs on lines. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] Riis's social activism in pursuit of better life conditions for the poorest classes of New York, of which the book where this picture was published was one of the best examples, was one of the factors that led to ...
Many immigrants lived in crowded and disease-ridden tenements, worked long hours, and lived in poverty. Children often worked to help support the family. Jacob Riis wrote How the Other Half Lives in 1890 about the lives of immigrants on New York City's Lower East Side to bring greater awareness of the immigrant's living conditions. [21]
Jacob Riis, in his ground-breaking, muckraking journalistic expose of 1890, How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York attributes the reform movement to the fear of contagious disease emanating from the ghettos, especially following an outbreak of smallpox, far more contagious than the cholera and tuberculosis that had ...
Some of the children who lived in the streets had homes, but preferred to sleep on the street, as their tenements were often too small, unsanitary, or overcrowded. [ 2 ] In the photograph, three children apparently sleep close to each others near a heated vent at the bottom floor of a tenement on Mulberry Street .
The following is from Jacob Riis's How The Other Half Lives: [2] Mulberry Bend Park c. 1912, established in part due to the efforts of photojournalist Jacob Riis. Where Mulberry Street crooks like an elbow within hail of the old depravity of the Five Points, is "the Bend", foul core of New York’s slums.
"I Scrubs" (c. 1890) by Jacob Riis "I Scrubs", full title: ‘I scrubs.’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.