How the Other Half Lives " "A New Year's Eve

" "A New Year's Eve Adventure

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And although he was Victorian in his dates

to our knowledge this is the first book devoted entirely to this popular form in many decades

How the Other Half Lives " "A New Year's EveJacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the twentieth century, when as many as 300,000 people per square mile were crowded into the tenements of New York's Lower East Side. The filth and degradation made the area a hell for the immigrants forced to live there. Riis was one of those immigrants, and, after years of abject poverty, when he became a police reporter for the New York Tribune, he exposed