How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York / Jacob A. Riis ; with 100 photographs from the Jacob A. Riis Collection, the Museum of the City of New York, and a new preface by Charles A. Madison.

Main entry:

Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914.

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Description:

xiii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 20 x 26 cm

Series:

Dover books on sociology, social theory, anthropology

Notes:
"An unabridged republication of the text of the 1901 edition ... A new preface has been written specially for the present edition."
List of illustrations -- Preface to the first editions -- Introduction -- Genesis of the tenement -- Awakening -- Mixed crowd -- Down town back-alleys -- Italian in New York -- Bend -- Raid on the stale-beer dives -- Cheap lodging-houses -- Chinatown -- Jewtown -- Sweaters of Jewtown -- Bohemians -- tenement-house cigar-making -- Color line in New York -- Common herd -- Problem of the children -- Waifs of the city's slums -- Street Arab -- Reign of rum -- Harvest of tares -- Working girls of New York -- Pauperism in the tenements -- Wrecks and the waste -- Man with the knife -- What has been done -- How the case stands -- Appendix.

Summary:

This classic account of slum conditions in New York City was first published in 1890, without photographs. 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. 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.

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ISBN:

0486220125
9780486220123
9780312117009
0312117000

Subject:

Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914 Photograph collections.
Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914.
Museum of the City of New York Photograph collections.
Museum of the City of New York.
Tenement houses New York (State) New York.
Slums New York (State) New York.
Poor New York (State) New York.
Documentary photography New York (State)
Poverty
Travailleurs Habitations New York (État) New York.
Pauvres New York (État) New York.
Photographie documentaire New York (État)
Documentary photography.
Photograph collections.
Poor.
Slums.
Social conditions.
Tenement houses.
Tenement houses New York, NY.
Poor New York, NY.
New York (N.Y.) Pictorial works.
Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) Social conditions.
New York City
New York (State)
New York (State) New York.
New York (State) New York Lower East Side.
New York (N.Y.) Social conditions.
Slum communities New York (City) Early works, 1890

Form/genre:

photobooks.
Photobooks.
Pictorial works.
Markings (Provenance) NNC
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Madison, Charles Allan, writer of preface.
Museum of the City of New York.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 13718
Call No.: ID PLB; ID:87-B3879
Status: Available

Location: Library main 13720
Call No.: ID:87-B3879
Status: Available

Location: Library main 13719
Call No.: ID:87-B3879
Status: Available

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