Background
Riis, Jacob August was born on May 3, 1849 in Ribe, Denmark. Son of Niels Edward and Caroline B. (Lundholm) Riis.
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How the Other Half Lives - Kindle edition by Jacob Riis, Charles A. Madison. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
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Jacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the 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 immigrants, and, after years of abject poverty, when he became a police reporter for the New York Tribune, he exposed the shameful conditions of life with which he was all too familiar. Today, he is best remembered as a compassionate and effective reformer and as a pioneer photo-journalist. In How the Other Half Lives, New Yorkers read with horror that three-quarters of the residents of their city were housed in tenements and that in those tenements rents were substantially higher than in better sections of the city. In his book Riis gave a full and detailed picture of what life in those slums was like, how the slums were created, how and why they remained as they were, who was forced to live there, and offered suggestions for easing the lot of the poor. Riis originally documented all his studies with photographs. However, since the half-tone technique of photo reproduction had not been perfected, the original edition included mainly reductions in sketch-form of Riis' photographs. These could not begin to capture what Riis' sensitive camera caught on film. The anguish and the apathy, the toughness and the humiliation of the anonymous faces is all but obliterated in the sketches. This Dover edition includes fully 100 photographs, many famous, and many less familiar, from the Riis collection of the City Museum, and their inclusion here creates a closer conformity to Riis' intentions than did the original edition. Jacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the 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 immigrants, and, after years of abject poverty, when he became a police reporter for the New York Tribune, he exposed the shameful conditions of life with which he was all too familiar. Today, he is best remembered as a compassionate and effective reformer and as a pioneer photo-journalist. In How the Other Half Lives, New Yorkers read with horror that three-quarters of the residents of their city were housed in tenements and that in those tenements rents were substantially higher than in better sections of the city. In his book Riis gave a full and detailed picture of what life in those slums was like, how the slums were created, how and why they remained as they were, who was forced to live there, and offered suggestions for easing the lot of the poor. Riis originally documented all his studies with photographs. However, since the half-tone technique of photo reproduction had not been perfected, the original edition included mainly reductions in sketch-form of Riis' photographs. These could not begin to capture what Riis' sensitive camera caught on film. The anguish and the apathy, the toughness and the humiliation of the anonymous faces is all but obliterated in the sketches. This Dover edition includes fully 100 photographs, many famous, and many less familiar, from the Riis collection of the City Museum, and their inclusion here creates a closer conformity to Riis' intentions than did the original edition.
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The battle with the slum
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Children of the Tenements - Kindle edition by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis, C. M. (Charles Mark) Relyea. Reference Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
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The Peril and the Preservation of the Being: The William L. Bull Lectures for the Year 1903 (Classic Reprint)
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The Letter Establishing the Lectureship SOCIAL WELFARE For many years, it has been my earnest desire to found a LeeLIBRARY tures Jiip on Christian Sociology, meaning thereby the application of Christian principles to the social, industrial, and economic problems of the time, in my alma mater, the Philadelphia Divinity School. My object In founding this Lectureship is to secure the free, frank, and full consideration of these subjects with special reference to the Christian aspects of the questions involved, which have heretofore, in my opinion, been too much neglected in such discussion. It would seem that the time is now ripe and the moment an auspicious one for the establishment of this Lectureship, at least tentatively. I therefore make the following offer to continue for at least a period of three years, with the hope that these lectures may excite such an interest, particularly among the undergraduates of the Divinity School, that I shall be justified, with the approval of the authorities of the Divinity School, in placing the Lectureship on a more permanent foundation. I herewith pledge myself to contribute the sum of six hundred dollars annually, for a period of three years, to the payment of a lecturer on Christian Sociology, whose duty it shall be to deliver a course of not less than four lectures to the students of the Divinity School, either at the school or elsewhere, as may be deemed most advisable, on the application of Christian principles to the social, industrial, and economic problems and needs of the times; the said lecturer to be appointed annually by a committee of five members: the Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania; the Dean of the Divinity School; a member of the Board of Overseers; and two of the Associate A lumni, one of whom shall be chosen by the Alumni A ssociation, and the other to be myself. Furthermore, If It shall be deeme (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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Christmas stories by Riis, Jacob A. Published 1923 (History of Christmas Book 12) - Kindle edition by Jacob A Riis. Children Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
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The kid hangs up his stocking -- Is there a Santa Claus? -- The Crogans' Christmas in the snowshed -- The old town -- His Christmas gift -- The snow babies' Christmas -- Jack's sermon -- Merry Christmas in the tenements -- What the Christmas sun saw in the tennements -- Nibsy's Christmas -- The little dollar's Christmas journey -- Little Will's message -- The burgomaster's Christmas
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Jacob Riis
Jacob Riis, Danish author.
Education
Educated at Latin school in Ribe.
Career
Came to New York and became police reporter New York Sun. Active in the small parks and playgrounds movement, and in tenement house and school reform. Secretary New York Small Parks Commission, 1897.
Author: How the Other Half Lives, 1890. The Children of the Poor, 1892. The Making of an American, 1901.
The Battle with the Slum, 1902. Children of the Tenements, 1902. Is There a Santa Claus?, 1904.
Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen, 1904. The Old Town, 1909; Hero Tales of the Far North, 1910. Home: Barre, Mass.
Works
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Christmas stories by Riis, Jacob A. Published 1923 (History of Christmas Book 12) - Kindle edition by Jacob A Riis. Children Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
(The kid hangs up his stocking -- Is there a Santa Claus? ...)
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The Peril and the Preservation of the Being: The William L. Bull Lectures for the Year 1903 (Classic Reprint)
(The Letter Establishing the Lectureship SOCIAL WELFARE Fo...)
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How the Other Half Lives - Kindle edition by Jacob Riis, Charles A. Madison. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
(Jacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed t...)
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The battle with the slum
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Children of the Tenements - Kindle edition by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis, C. M. (Charles Mark) Relyea. Reference Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
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The Children of the Poor eBook: Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis: Kindle Store
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Is There a Santa Claus? - Kindle edition by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
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Nibsy's Christmas eBook: Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis: Kindle Store
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Christmas stories by Riis, Jacob A. Published 1923 (History of Christmas Book 12) - Kindle edition by Jacob A Riis. Children Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
Connections
Married Elizabeth D. Nielsen, Mar 5, 1876 (died 1905). Married second, Mary Phillips, July 29, 1907.
- Father:
- Niels Edward Riis
- Mother:
- Caroline B. (Lundholm) Riis
- Spouse:
- Elizabeth D. Nielsen
- Spouse:
- Mary Phillips
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Died
March 26, 1914 (aged 65) -
Nationality
Danish -
Ethnicity