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EVILS OF THE TENEMENTS.; Jacob A. Riis Says They Seem to be Under Charge of Satan.
The speakers were Jacob A. Riis, Dr. E.R.L. Gould, Roger Foster, and Richard Watson Gilder. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...
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A NYC Tenement Legacy Persists, Despite Gentrification
When Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives in 1890, New York City’s Lower East Side was the epicenter of American tenement life. At one point, almost three hundred thousand people were ...
Politics Was on the Agenda at City Hall. Dating Waited.
Emma Barash met Mitchell Schwartz when she brought a sensitive issue to his attention while they worked at New York City Hall ...
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Jacob Riis
The exhibition Documentary Genealogies. Photography 1848-1917 explores, throughout seven rooms, the historical background of documentary photography between the revolutions of 1848 and 1917. In 1930, ...
NYCHA residents across NYC protest what they say are inhumane conditions. How the housing authority is responding
Residents are saying "enough is enough." Outside the Jacob Riis Houses on the Lower East Side, residents protested with a ...
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Mr. Riis on "Battle With the Slums"
Mr. Jacob August Riis will give a lecture on "The Battle with the Slums" in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Riis has for some time been active in the movement for ...