How the other half lives
studies among the tenements of New York.
by Jacob A. Riis
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This classic account of slum conditions in New York City was first published in 1890. Annotation. Famous journalistic record, exposing poverty & degradation of New York slums around 1900, by major social reformer. Famous journalistic record, exposing poverty and degradation of New York slums around 1900, by major social reformer. 100 striking and influential photographs. In How The Other Half Lives New Yorkers read with horror that three-quarters of the residents of their city were housed in tenements and that in those tenements rents were substantially higher than in better sections of the city. In his book Riis gave a full and detailed picture of what life in those slums was like, how the slums were created, how and why they remained as they were, who was forced to live there, and offered suggestions for easing the lot of the poor.
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Museum of the City of New York, Photograph collections, Poor, Poverty, Social conditions, Tenement houses, Tenement-houses, Propagation, Woody plants, Cuttings, Poor, new york (state), new york, New york (n.y.), social conditions, SlumsPeople
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How the other half lives: studies among the tenements of New York.
1971, Dover
in English
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How the other half lives: studies among the tenements of New York
1957, Hill and Wang
in English
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How the other half lives: studies among the tenements of New York
1890, Charles Scribner's Sons
in English
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"An unabridged republication of the text of the 1901 edition ... A new preface has been written specially for the present edition."
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A photographic collection exposing social conditions and daily life in the slums of late 19th century New York City. The title of the book is a reference to a sentence by French writer and philosopher François Rabelais, who famously wrote in his Pantagruel : "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives" ("la moitié du monde ne sait pas comment l'autre vit").
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