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Jacob Riis’s 1901 autobiography, The Making of an American regaled readers with accounts of the degrading experiences of his early years as a struggling immigrant through his astounding rise as a celebrated writer and confidant of the president of the United States—a story he used to promote his reform causes. In his later years, Riis ...
Jacob A. Riis (1849–1914) was a journalist and social reformer who publicized the crises in housing, education, and poverty at the height of European immigration to New York City in the late nineteenth century.
Feb 26, 2015 · Jacob Riis Biography. Jacob Riis (left) and Theodore Roosevelt. photo courtesy of Richmond Hill Historical Society, Richmond Hill, NY. Jacob Riis was born in Ribe, Denmark in 1849, and immigrated to New York in 1870. Unable to find work, he soon found himself living in police lodging houses, and begging for food.
Biography. A pioneer in the use of photography as an agent of social reform, Jacob Riis immigrated to the United States in 1870. While working as a police reporter for the New York Tribune, he did a series of exposés on slum conditions in a series of tenement photographs on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, which led him to view photography as ...
May 27, 2014 · Pioneering Social Reformer Jacob Riis Revealed “How The Other Half Lives” in America. How innovations in photography helped this 19th century journalist improve life for many of his fellow...
Feb 26, 2019 · Jacob Riis, an immigrant from Denmark, became a journalist in New York City in the late 19th century and devoted himself to documenting the plight of working people and the very poor. His work, especially in his landmark 1890 book How the Other Half Lives, had an enormous impact on American society.
Jun 30, 2008 · See Photos by Jacob Riis. Through photos and writings documenting poverty in New York City in the late 19th century, a Danish immigrant became a famous campaigner against slum housing. Two new...
