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Jacob Riis Triangle, at Babbage and 116 Streets, 85 Ave, [86] Richmond Hill, 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]
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]
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.
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]
Pages in category "Photographs by Jacob Riis" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
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.
He calls some of the girls from his pictures, "little mothers", because despite their young age they already had responsibilities similar to grown ups. [2] [3] Riis explains in his book that "little Katie", the girl depicted in this picture, lived at West Forty-ninth Street, in New York, and was 9 years old. She lived with her father and ...
To the right, a man is barely visible, carrying a shovel, probably a working companion, since he was almost totally cropped from the photograph. The surprised look of the man is most likely due to the effect the flash photographs used by Riis sometimes had on the people he captured on camera, often without their permission. [2] [3]