This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and of early American

This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and a monument of ear

Jacob August Riis ( May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known

Jacob Riis's famed 1890 photo-text addressed the problems of tenement housing, immigration, and urban life and work at the beginning of the Progressive era. Dav