Riis’ How the Other Half Lives

Jacob August Riis,  How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons: New York, 1890.

Five Cents Lodging, Bayard Street

Dens of Death

bandit’s roost

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Museum of the City of New York Video

A Layman’s Sermon: Jacob A. Riis on How the Other Half Lives & Dies in NY

Khan Academy Articles

Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, Knee-Pants at Forty-Five Cents a Dozen–A Ludlow Street Sweater’s  Shop

Muckrakers

My Modern Met Article

Jacob Riis: The Photographer Who Showed “How the Other Half Lives’ in 1890s NYC