How the Other Half Lives

How the Other Half Lives (1890)
by Jacob Riis

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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the slums to New York City’s upper and middle-class.

Front cover of original 1890 edition

This work was published before January 1, 1927, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

How the Other Half Lives

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