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  2. 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.

  3. Jacob Riis - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. List of photographs considered the most important - Wikipedia

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    Photographer Location Format Notes Cited survey(s) Street Arabs in the Area of Mulberry Street: 1880 Jacob Riis: New York City, United States Gelatin silver print [s 2] Water Rats: 1886 Frank Meadow Sutcliffe: Whitby, England, United Kingdom Albumen print [s 1] Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street: 1888 Jacob Riis: Mulberry Bend, New York ...

  5. 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]

  6. Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street - Wikipedia

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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]

  7. Social documentary photography - Wikipedia

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    England was the birthplace of social documentary photography, given the advanced stage of industrialization, and its impact on society. Child laborer (Lewis Hine, USA, 1908). In the United States two photographers got involved at the end of the 19th century in favor of people on the margins of society, Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine.

  8. ‘You get one split second’: The story behind a viral bird photo

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    The photographer had captured a rapid-fire sequence of more than 60 images, seven of which showed the huge bird formation. Yet there was one that stood out from the rest.

  9. Category:Photographs by Jacob Riis - Wikipedia

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    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.