Photographs, [ca. 1890-1910]

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Photographs, [ca. 1890-1910]

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Photographs taken by Riis to show the poverty experienced by immigrants to New York City, particularly Manhattan's Lower East Side, illustrating interiors and exteriors of tenements, inhabitants working to earn a living, street scenes, markets, police lodging houses, and charity and civic organizations. Also illustrated are ideas for civic improvement showing before and after changes for new schools and playgrounds and floor plans for apartment buildings. In addition, lantern slides Riis used in his lectures about conditions in Manhattan. Photographs are identified. Riis' original notebook records his titles of the photographs.

412 glass negatives, 150 prints, 150 lantern slides.

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Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914

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Journalist, author, and humanitarian. From the description of Jacob A. Riis papers, 1870-1990 (bulk 1887-1913). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71060723 Reformer, journalist, author. From the description of Papers of Jacob A. Riis [manuscript], 1899-1914. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814455 Jacob A. Riis, journalist and social reformer, was born in Denmark and moved to the United States at 21. He became a reporter for the New York trib...