作者: Jacob Riis

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 …

‘How the Other Half Lives’ is a chronicle of the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th century had to endure. Riis, who as an immigrant …

Christmas is the most famous holiday of the year, and the word itself evokes images of Santa Claus, reindeer, snow, Christmas trees, egg nog and more. At the same time, it represents Christianity’s …

Christmas is the most famous holiday of the year, and the word itself evokes images of Santa Claus, reindeer, snow, Christmas trees, egg nog and more. At the same time, it represents Christianity’s …

”How the Other Half Lives” by Jacob Riis sheds fascinating light on how our immigrants in the 1800’s lived in New York City. A must-read for Americans whose family has been in the U.S. for only a f …

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