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How the other half lives; studies among the tenements of New York. / 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.
LIBRA HV4046.N6 R58 1971
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Van Pelt Library HV4046.N6 R58 1971
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Book Committee.
- Tenement houses--New York (State)--New York.
- Tenement houses.
- Poor.
- New York (State)--New York.
- New York (N.Y.)--Poor.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 20 x 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dover, [1971]
- Summary:
- 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."
- ISBN:
- 0486220125
- OCLC:
- 139827
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