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Riis, Jacob August

2013
Jacob August Riis (1848–1914) came to America in 1870 from Denmark and worked as a police reporter in New York City for 22 years. In addition to his realistic descriptions of slum conditions, Riis recommended health, educational, and environmental reform.
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Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives

2021
Jacob Riis (1849–1914) was a Danish immigrant and photojournalist best known for his first book, How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York. Published in 1890, the book shocked the conscience of Americans by showing in vivid detail the slum conditions of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where Jewish, Bohemian, German, Italian ...
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Jacob A. Riis and the American City

Journal of American History, 1975
Daniel Levine, Levine Daniel
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Jacob Riis

2018
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Riis, Jacob

2014
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Jacob Riis Houses

2016
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Writing with Light: Jacob Riis’s Ambivalent Exposures

College English, 2008
The current interest in multimodal rhetoric was anticipated by Jacob Riis’s social documentary texts and presentations during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In contrast with the socialist urban critiques presented by Friedrich Engels, Riis’s work demonstrated profound ambivalence toward the city’s poor.
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Rediscovering Jacob Riis

2014
Bonnie Yochelson, Daniel Czitrom
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“Letting in the Light”: Jacob Riis’s Crusade for Breathing Spaces on the Lower East Side

Journal of Urban History, 2020
Adrienne Denoyelles
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