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Jacob Riis

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Gender Male
Death109 years ago
Date of birth May 3,1849
Zodiac sign Taurus
Born Ribe
Denmark
Date of died May 26,1914
DiedBarre
Massachusetts
United States
Artworks Lower East Side
On view San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Houston Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
National Portrait Gallery
Known forReform movement
Journalism
Photography
Spouse Mary Phillips
Elisabeth Gortz
Elisabeth Dorthea Nielsen Riis
WorksHome of an Italian Ragpicker, Jersey Street
Jacob Riis Self‑Portrait
Children John Riis
Clara C. Riis
Roger Williams Riis
Edward V. Riis
Parents Niels Edward Riis
Carolina Riis
NicknameJacob the Delver
NationalityAmerican
Danish
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID427365

How the Other Half Lives
The Making of an American
The Battle with the Slum
The Children of the Poor: A Child Welfare Classic
Children of the Tenements
Out of Mulberry Street: Stories of Tenement Life in New York City
Jacob A. Riis: Photographer & Citizen
A Ten Years' War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York
Jacob Riis
Is There a Santa Claus?
The Peril and Preservation of the Home: Being the William L. Bull Lectures for the Year 1903
Nibsy's Christmas
Neighbors: Life Stories of the Other Half
Hero Tales of the Far North
How the Other Half Lives: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism
Jacob Riis Revisited: Poverty and the Slum in Another Era
The Complete Photographic Work of Jacob A. Riis
Nibsy As Santa Claus
The Must- Read Novels for Christmas Time (Illustrated Edition): The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Christmas Angel, The Little City of Hope, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…
A Ten Year War
How the Other Half Lives + Muckraking + Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt + Pearl Harbor And the Coming of the Pacific War
CHRISTMAS ESSENTIALS - The Greatest Novels, Tales & Poems for The Holiday Season: 180+ Titles in One Volume (Illustrated): Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, A Christmas Carol, The Mistletoe Bough, The First Christmas Of New England, The Gift of the Magi, Little Women, Christmas Bells, The Wonderful Life of Christ¦
Reading the American Past 4th Ed Vol 2 + How the Other Half Lives + the Scopes Trial
America 4th Ed Vol 2 + U. s. Environmentalism Since 1945 + Black Protest and the Great Migration + How the Other Half Lives 2nd Ed: A Concise History
America: A Concise History 3e V2 + Documents V2 + How the Other Half Lives
American Promise 4e Vol2 + Pocket Guide to Writing in History 5e + How the Other Half LiVoles + Era of Franklin Delano RooseVolelt + Rise of ConserVolatism in America
American Promise Compact 2e Vol 2 + How the Other Half Lives
America Firsthand and How the Other Half Lives
Triangle Fire + Plunkitt of Tammany Hall + How the Other Half Lives
America a Concise History 2e, Vol2 + How the Other Half Lives
America's History 5e, Volume 2 + How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis
How the Other Half Lives: Photography and Writing By
Nibsby's Christmas: Nibsby As Santa Claus
America a Concise History 2ed, Vol 2 + How the Other Half Lives + the Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Reading the American Past 5e V2 + How the Other Half Lives 2e
Defending Slavery + Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War + How the Other Half Lives
How the Other Half Lives: The True Story of Early New York Slums (Timeless Classic Books)
American Promise 3e V2 + Reading the American Past 3e V2 + How the Other Half Lives + Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great Depression + Movements of the New Left 1950-1975
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall + How the Other Half Lives + Lyndon B. Johnson & American Liberalism
How the Other Half Lives (1890). By: Jacob Riis: (Illustrated). . . How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) Was a Pioneering Work of Photojournalism by Jacob Riis, Documenting the Squalid Living Conditions in New York City Slums in The 1880s
America's History 6e V2 & How the Other Half Lives
America 4th Ed Vol 2 + How the Other Half Lives 2nd Ed: A Concise History
New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741 and Harlem Renaissance and Triangle Fire and How the Other Half Lives
Down the Chimney: 100+ Most Treasured Christmas Novels & Stories in One Volume (Illustrated): The Tailor of Gloucester, Little Women, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Heavenly Christmas Tree…
Who Built America Volume 2 + Souls of Black Folk + How the Other Half Lives
American Promise 2e, Volume 2 + How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis
How the Other Half Lives - Scholar's Choice Edition
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 2e + How the Other Half Lives + 9/11 Commision Report + Movements of the New Left, 1950-1975
Southern Horrors + How the Other Half Lives + Muckraking And Plessy V.
America's History 4e, Volume 2 + Our Hearts Fell to the Ground + How the Other Half Lives and The Souls of Black Folk and The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Women's Magazines and My Lai
Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen
The Children of the Poor
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Jacob August Riis was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist, and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in America at the turn of the twentieth century.

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