A 'Scrub' and Her Bed - The Plank, ca. 1890
Photos from
Museum of the City of New York,
The Jacob A. Riis Collection
via The New York Times
Jacob Riis, 1906
by Pirie MacDonald (1867-1942)
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A Danish-born police reporter with a knack of publicity
and an abiding Christian faith, Jacob Riis won international
recognition for his 1890 bestseller, 'How the Other Half Lives',
which exposed the desperate and squalid conditions of New York
City’s tenement slums and gave momentum to a sanitary reform
movement that started in the 1840s and culminated in New York
State’s landmark Tenement House Act of 1901
link
Photos from
Museum of the City of New York,
The Jacob A. Riis Collection
via The New York Times
Jacob Riis, 1906
by Pirie MacDonald (1867-1942)
link
A Danish-born police reporter with a knack of publicity
and an abiding Christian faith, Jacob Riis won international
recognition for his 1890 bestseller, 'How the Other Half Lives',
which exposed the desperate and squalid conditions of New York
City’s tenement slums and gave momentum to a sanitary reform
movement that started in the 1840s and culminated in New York
State’s landmark Tenement House Act of 1901
link
The Baby’s Playground, ca. 1890
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4 comments:
Again, excellent! I didn't know about this photographer and I live in the US where I have seen tenament buildings that are in bad shape, even today.
Oh, i've new him for a long time...maybe because he was born in denmark :O)
Tänkvärda bilder!
Ja, det var en verden med slid, fattigdom og dårlige kår!
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