How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
- ISBN-10
- 0486220125
- ISBN-13
- 9780486220123
- Series
- How the Other Half Lives
- Category
- Photography
- Pages
- 233
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1971-01-01
- Publisher
- Courier Corporation
- Authors
- Jacob August Riis, Museum of the City of New York
Description
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.
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