Jacob Riis - Wikipedia
Jacob August Riis (/ riːs / REESS; May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, "muck-raking" journalist, and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in the United States of America at the turn of the twentieth century. [1] .
Jacob Riis | Biography, How the Other Half Lives, Books, …
Jacob Riis (1849–1914) was an American reporter, social reformer, and photographer. His book How the Other Half Lives (1890) shocked readers with his descriptions of slum conditions in New York City, and it was an important predecessor to the muckraking journalism that gained popularity in the U.S. after 1900.
Jacob Riis - How the Other Half Lives, Photos & Facts - Biography
Jan 15, 2015 · Jacob Riis was a photographer and writer whose book 'How the Other Half Lives' led to a revolution in social reform.
Pioneering Social Reformer Jacob Riis Revealed "How The …
May 27, 2014 · Jacob Riis, who died 100 years ago this month, struggled through his first few years in the United States.
Jacob Riis: Revealing “How the Other Half Lives” - Library of Congress
Jacob Riis’s 1901 autobiography, The Making of an American regaled readers with accounts of the degrading experiences of his early years as a struggling immigrant through his astounding rise as a celebrated writer and confidant of the president of the United States—a story he used to promote his reform causes. In his later years, Riis ...
How the Other Half Lives - Wikipedia
Original Cover of 1890 edition Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street (1888). 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 …
Jacob Riis: Revealing “How the Other Half Lives” - Library of Congress
Jacob A. Riis (1849–1914) was a journalist and social reformer who publicized the crises in housing, education, and poverty at the height of European immigration to New York City in the late nineteenth century.
Jacob Riis Biography - U.S. National Park Service
Feb 26, 2015 · Jacob Riis (left) and Theodore Roosevelt. photo courtesy of Richmond Hill Historical Society, Richmond Hill, NY. Jacob Riis was born in Ribe, Denmark in 1849, and immigrated to New York in 1870. Unable to find work, he soon found himself living in police lodging houses, and begging for food.
Jacob August Riis - Encyclopedia.com
May 29, 2018 · Jacob August Riis (1849-1914), Danish-born American journalist and slum reformer, created new stan dards in civic responsibility regarding the poor and homeless in his reporting of New York City slum conditions.
Riis, Jacob - Social Welfare History Project
Nov 10, 2022 · Riis was a notable American newspaper reporter, social reformer, and photographer. His most famous work, How the Other Half Lives(1890), shed light on the plight of the slums in New York City (“Jacob Riis: American journalist,” n.d.). When he was 21 years old, Riis immigrated to America.