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This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York''s slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and a monument of early American photography. Captured on film by photographer, journalist, and reformer Jacob Riis, more than 100 grim scenes reveal man''s struggle to survive.

How the Other Half Lives

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A Paperback / softback by Jacob A. Riis

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    Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
    Publication Date: 28/03/2003
    ISBN13: 9780486220123, 978-0486220123
    ISBN10: 0486220125
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    Book Synopsis
    This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York''s slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and a monument of early American photography. Captured on film by photographer, journalist, and reformer Jacob Riis, more than 100 grim scenes reveal man''s struggle to survive.

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