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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
How the Other Half Lives Studies Among the Tenements of New York
Author: Jacob A. Riis
Jacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the twentieth century, when as many as 300,000 people per square mile were crowded into the tenements of New York's Lower East Side. The filth and degradation made the area a hell for the immigrants forced to live there. Riis was one of those immigra...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780486220123
ISBN-10: 0486220125
Publication Date: 6/1/1971
Pages: 233
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Publisher: Dover Publications
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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