Book of Donmon Teith

"Jacob Riis's illustrated tour of New York's slums had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that changed the face of the city. In

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 of early American

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 ear

Jacob Riis's famed 1890 photo-text addressed the problems of tenement housing, immigration, and urban life and work at the beginning of the Progressive era. Dav