How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York / Jacob A. Riis ; with 100 photographs from the Jacob A. Riis Collection, the Museum of the City of New York, and a new preface by Charles A. Madison.

This classic account of slum conditions in New York City was first published in 1890, without photographs. 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 t...

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Main Author: Riis, Jacob A. 1849-1914.
Corporate Author: Museum of the City of New York.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Dover, [1971]
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Call Number: HV4046.N6 R58 1971
Status: Available