Jacob Riis
- Books on site
- 1
- Total words
- 81,600
- Reading time
- 4.5 h
- Years covered
- 1890
- Longest
- How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis (1849 – 1914) was born in Ribe, Denmark, and emigrated to New York in 1870, spending his first years there in casual labour and near destitution before becoming a police reporter for the Evening Sun and then the Tribune. From the 1880s he used magnesium flash photography and lantern-slide lectures to document the tenements of the Lower East Side, and How the Other Half Lives (1890) turned those investigations into the book that helped force New York’s tenement legislation. Theodore Roosevelt, as police commissioner, called him the most useful citizen of New York.
1free edition81,600words on site~4.5 hreading time1890years covered
How the Other Half Lives| Year | Title | Words | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890 | How the Other Half Lives | 81,600 | ~5 h |
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