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How the Other Half Lives Studies Among the Tenements of New York 1890 [Hardcover]

Jacob A. Riis

The belief that every man's experience ought to be worth something to the community from which he drew it, no matter what that experience may be, so long as it was gleaned along the line of some decent, honest work, made me begin this book. With the result before him, the reader can judge for himsel...

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Jacob Rees published this work first as an article in 1889 and then as a book the following year, using stark photography to expose the horrific living and working conditions of the urban poor to shocked middle- and upper-class New Yorkers.

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Then in 1889, Rees published an article entitled How the Other Half Lives in Scribner's Magazine. The following year, he turned it into a book of the same name.

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Jacob Rees published this work first as an article in 1889 and then as a book the following year, using stark photography to expose the horrific living and working conditions of the urban poor to shocked middle- and upper-class New Yorkers.

"

Then in 1889, Rees published an article entitled How the Other Half Lives in Scribner's Magazine. The following year, he turned it into a book of the same name.

Reading it, upper- and middle-class New Yorkers were shocked to learn of the bleak conditions the poor faced.

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