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  2. Jacob Riis - Wikipedia

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    Jacob Riis Playground, at Babbage and 116 Streets, 85 Ave, Queens [87] P.S. 126 The Jacob Riis Community School, on Catherine Street in New York City, is a public PK-5 school [88] From 1915 until 2002, Jacob Riis Public School on South Throop Street in Chicago was a high school operated by the Chicago School Board. [89]

  3. How the Other Half Lives - Wikipedia

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    Jacob Riis, author of How the Other Half Lives. Jacob Riis emigrated from Denmark in 1870 to New York City, eager to prove himself. Finding it difficult to find work, he found a home in the slums of New York's Lower East Side. [13] He went back to Denmark for a short time, returning to New York to become a police reporter.

  4. Muckraker - Wikipedia

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    Jacob Riis (1849–1914) – How the Other Half Lives, the slums. Charles Edward Russell (1860–1941) – investigated Beef Trust, Georgia's prison. Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) – The Jungle (1906), US meat-packing industry, and the books in the "Dead Hand" series that critique the institutions (journalism, education, etc.) that could but ...

  5. Talk:Jacob Riis - Wikipedia

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    Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914), was a Danish-American social reformer, muckraking journalist and photographer. So the "destruction" was of duplication -- and duplication in slightly odd English ("Field" for three fields) and with simplification (one nationality rather than two).

  6. American realism - Wikipedia

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    Jacob August Riis (1849–1914), a Danish-American muckraker journalist, photographer, and social reformer, was born in Ribe, Denmark. He is known for his dedication to using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the less fortunate in New York City, which was the subject of most of his prolific writings and photographic essays.

  7. NYC’s Riis Houses on edge after arsenic scare, week without ...

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    Portable water stations are set up outside of the Jacob Riis Houses on Sept. 7, 2022 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/) The scare came to a merciful end Saturday, when city officials gave the all ...

  8. Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a Spot

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    Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a Spot (1889) by Jacob Riis. Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a Spot is a black and white photograph taken by Danish-American photographer Jacob Riis, in 1889. It was included in his photographic book How the Other Half Lives, published in 1890. [1]

  9. Jacob Rees-Mogg issues style guide of banned words and ... - AOL

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    The style guide, obtained by ITV News, includes a list of grammar instructions and a demand for imperial measurements. Jacob Rees-Mogg issues style guide of banned words and grammar instructions ...