Jacob A. Riis

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On the outskirts of the ancient town of Ribe, on the Danish north seacoast, a wooden bridge spanned the Nibs River when I was a boy-a frail structure, with twin arches like the humps of a dromedary, for boats to go under. Upon it my story begins. The brid

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Riis, som præsident Theodore Roosevelt kaldte »New Yorks nyttigste borger«, skrev i sin tid tre dagbøger. Den ene er gået tabt, men de to andre udgives nu for første gang. De handler om hans ulykkelige kærlighed til Elisabeth Giørtz fra hjembyen Ribe og s

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Rediscovering the True Spirit of Christmas. Jacob A. Riis has collected over 13 short Christmas Stories for you to enjoy; stories to kindle your holiday spirit. He was focused on the true spirit of Christmas: generosity, kindness, and charity toward other

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Jacob Riis's classic is an open window into a world unknown to most. Originally published in 1890, this classic inditement of slum life remains an outstanding example of the value of investigative journalism and its potential to change the world for t

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2015 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published in 1890, this is the classic indictment of slum life, written by one of the most famous reformers of the nineteent

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First published in 1890, this is the author's study of the slums of New York, where Italians, Jews, "Bohemians", Blacks and Chinese struggled against the effects of poverty, alcohol and lack of education. The author's use of photographs

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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 R

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Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions. Jacob Riis's pioneering work of photojournalism takes its title from Rabelais's Pantagruel: "One half of the world

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"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did

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Of the President I am proud with reason, but the friend I love. And if I can make you see him so, as a friend and a man, I have given you the master-key to him as a statesman as well. Jacob Riis, Theodore RooseveltThe Citizen Theodore RooseveltThe Citizen