Jacob A. Riis: Photographer & Citizen
- ISBN-10
- 0900406569
- ISBN-13
- 9780900406560
- Pages
- 220
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1975
- Publisher
- Gordon Fraser
- Authors
- Jacob August Riis, Alexander Alland
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