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Jacob A. Riis
American photographer, journalist and activist (1849–1914)
Jacob August Riis was a Danish-American social reformer, "muck-raking" journalist, and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in the United States of America at the turn of the 20th century. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography.
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A Ten Years' War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York
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Christmas Stories
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Hero Tales of the Far North
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
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Is There a Santa Claus?
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Neighbors: Life Stories of the Other Half
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Nibsy's Christmas
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Out of Mulberry Street: Stories of Tenement life in New York City
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The Battle with the Slum
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The Children of the Poor
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The Making of an American
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The old town
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The Peril and the Preservation of the Home: Being the William L. Bull Lectures for the Year 1903
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