How the other half lives
Subtitle: studies among the tenements of New York
By: Jacob A. Riis ; introduction by Alan Trachtenberg.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674049321
Subjects: Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York; Poor -- New York (State) -- New York
Notes: Originally published by same publisher in 1970, with the addition of an introduction, chronology of Riis's life, and a selected bibliography.

Wherever possible, the engravings based on the Riis's originals that were included in the 1970 ed. are replaced by Riis's original photographs.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Genesis of the tenement; title: The awakening; title: The mixed crowd; title: The down town back-alleys; title: The italian in New York; title: The bend; title: A raid on the stale-beer dives; title: The cheap lodging-houses; title: Chinatown; title: Jewtown; title: The sweaters of Jewtown; title: The Bohemians-tenement-house cigarmaking; title: The color line in New York; title: The common herd; title: The problem of the children; title: Waifs of the city's slums; title: The street Arab; title: The reign of rum; title: The harvest of tares; title: The working girls of New York; title: Pauperism in the tenements; title: The wrecks and the waste; title: The man with the knife; title: What has been done; title: How the case stands.