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Author Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914.

Title How the other half lives; studies among the tenements of New York With illustrations chiefly from photographs taken by the author.

Imprint Williamstown, Mass., Corner House, 1972.

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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  309.174 R572H    DUE 08-18-16 Billed
Description xv, 304 pages illustrations, plans 22 cm
Note Reprint of the 1890 ed.
Contents Genesis of the tenement -- The awakening -- The mixed crowd -- The down town back-alleys -- The Italian in New York -- The bend -- A raid on the stale-beer dives -- The cheap lodging-houses -- Chinatown -- Jewtown -- The sweaters of Jewtown -- The Bohemians : tenement-house cigar-making -- The color line in New York -- The common herd -- The problem of the children -- Waifs of the city's slums -- The street Arab -- The reign of rum -- The harvest of tares -- The working girls of New York -- Pauperism in the tenements -- The wrecks and the waste -- The man with the knife -- What has been done -- How the case stands.
Summary Exposes the squalid and unsanitary living and working conditions and widespread crime of the slums and poor ethnic districts of late-ninteenth-century New York City.
Subject Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York.
Tenement houses. (OCoLC)fst01147587
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
Poor -- New York (State) -- New York.
Local Subject Poor people -- New York (State) -- New York.
Subject Poor. (OCoLC)fst01071040
Other Form: Online version: Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914. How the other half lives; studies among the tenements of New York. Williamstown, Mass., Corner House, 1972 (OCoLC)875120908
ISBN 0512007861
9780512007865
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