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Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street is a black and white photograph produced by Danish-American photojournalist and social reformer Jacob Riis in 1888. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The photograph was possibly not taken by Riis but instead by one of his assistant photographers, Henry G. Piffard or Richard Hoe Lawrence. [ 3 ]
How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. The photographs served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle classes. They ...
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]
The following is from Jacob Riis's How The Other Half Lives: [2] Mulberry Bend Park c. 1912, established in part due to the efforts of photojournalist Jacob Riis. Where Mulberry Street crooks like an elbow within hail of the old depravity of the Five Points, is "the Bend", foul core of New York’s slums.
Street Arabs in the Area of Mulberry Street (c. 1890) by Jacob Riis. Street Arabs in the Area of Mulberry Street is a black and white photograph taken by Danish American photographer Jacob Riis, probably in 1890. The designation of street arabs was given back then to homeless children.
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 ...
English: Jacob August Riis Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street 1888 Not on view Medium Gelatin silver print, printed 1958 Dimensions 19 3/16 × 15 1/2" (48.7 × 39.4 cm) Credit Gift of the Museum of the City of New York Object number 326.1959 Department Photography
The Coast Guard suspended a search Saturday for two teenagers who went missing in the water at a busy New York City beach ... The boys were swimming at Jacob Riis Park in Queens when witnesses say ...