How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York
Jacob A. Riis (Author), Charles Allan Madison (Writer of preface), Museum of the City of New York
This classic account of slum conditions in New York City was first published in 1890, without photographs. New Yorkers read with horror that three-quarters of the residents of their city were housed in tenements and that in those tenements rents were substantially higher than in better sections of the city. A full and detailed picture of what life in those slums was like, how the slums were created, how and why they remained as they were, who was forced to live there, and offered suggestions for easing the lot of the poor
Print Book, English, 1971
Dover Publications, New York, 1971