How the Other Half Lives
Riis, Jacob
ISBN 10: 0486220125 ISBN 13: 9780486220123
Published by Dover Publications, 1971
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Synopsis:
This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and a monument of early American photography. Captured on film by photographer, journalist, and reformer Jacob Riis, more than 100 grim scenes reveal man's struggle to survive.
From the Back Cover: In How The Other Half Lives New Yorkers read with horror that three-quarters of the residents of their city were housed in tenements and that in those tenements rents were substantially higher than in better sections of the city. In his book Riis gave a full and detailed picture of what life in those slums was like, how the slums were created, how and why they remained as they were, who was forced to live there, and offered suggestions for easing the lot of the poor.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: How the Other Half Lives
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication Date: 1971
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket