Riis describes the work of the Children's Aid Society, which is trying to address this situation by sheltering thousands of homeless and orphaned children.
The Children of the Poor By Jacob A. Riis
Riis's rarely available account of the ten year battle to eradicate New York's Slums was first published in 1900.
The Children of the Poor
Reproduction of the original: The Children of the Poor by Jacob A. Riis
The Children of the Poor: Representations of Childhood Since the Seventeenth Century
The Children of the poor
This book is a call to action, challenging us all to do more to help those in need. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
"[...]the light of freshly-formed prejudices against this or that immigrant, yield to this simple solution that discovers all alarm to have been groundless.
... CLUBS Boys' Club reading room Carpenter shop in the Avenue C Working Boys' Club Bout with gloves in the Boys' Club ... POTTER'S FIELD Register of Children's Charities Notes About the Author Jacob August Riis (1849–1914). Source: Library ...
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York, 1892.