Jacob Riis: Reporter and Reformer

by Janet B. Pascal

Book Overview

Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was born in Denmark and emigrated to America at the age of 21. After several years of poverty, he found work as a police reporter, which took him into the worst of New York's ghettos and tenements. Appalled by the conditions he found there, he began to use the primitive
new flash technology to photograph the dark places that had never before been so graphically exposed. The resulting book, How the Other Half Lives, brought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195145275
• ISBN13: 9780195145274
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12