Author of Audiobooks - Jacob A. Riis
Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half - Jacob A. Riis
Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half - Jacob A. Riis
- Author: Jacob A. Riis
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories / *Non-fiction
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records of organized charity, that are never dry, as some think, but alive with vital human interest and with the...
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York - Jacob A. Riis
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York - Jacob A. Riis
- Author: Jacob A. Riis
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
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. It served as a basis for future...
The Making of an American - Jacob A. Riis
The Making of an American - Jacob A. Riis
- Author: Jacob A. Riis
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Jacob Riis was an esteemed reporter and documentary photographer in New York City. In his autobiography he movingly recounts his early life and unrelenting attempts at courtship in Denmark followed by his later experiences in the United States,...
Out of Mulberry Street - Jacob A. Riis
Out of Mulberry Street - Jacob A. Riis
- Author: Jacob A. Riis
- Genre: *Non-fiction
These riveting accounts by Jacob A. Riis are from the late 19th century, when lower Manhattan was teeming with struggling, near-starving immigrants crammed into wretched fire-prone tenements. Riis writes compassionately of these people who were...