How the Other Half Lives

Jacob August Riis, Museum of the City of New York

700 — Arts & recreation · Photography

Courier Corporation

1971-01-01

About

This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and a monument of early American photography. Captured on film by photographer, journalist, and reformer Jacob Riis, more than 100 grim scenes reveal man's struggle to survive.

ISBN

0486220125

Dewey Decimal

770

Subjects

Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York, Poor -- New York (State) -- New York, Photography