How the other half lives
Subtitle: studies among the tenements of New York.
By: With 100 photos. from the Jacob A. Riis Collection, the Museum of the City of New York, and a new pref. by Charles A. Madison.
Contributors: Museum of the City of New York.
Publisher: Dover
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York; Poor -- New York (State) -- New York
Description: This classic account of slum conditions in New York City was first published in 1890. Annotation. Famous journalistic record, exposing poverty & degradation of New York slums around 1900, by major social reformer. Famous journalistic record, exposing poverty and degradation of New York slums around 1900, by major social reformer. 100 striking and influential photographs. In How The Other Half Lives 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. In his book Riis gave 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.
Notes: "An unabridged republication of the text of the 1901 edition ... A new preface has been written specially for the present edition."