Examples of Jacob Riis in the following topics:
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- One of the most notable was Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849–May 26, 1914).
- Riis was a Danish-American social reformer, muckraker, and social documentary photographer.
- With the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller, Riis endorsed the implementation of "model tenements" in New York.
- Jacob Riis documented the hard life encountered by many immigrants and the poor in the city.
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- How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890), by photojournalist Jacob Riis, documented the squalid living conditions of New York City slums during the 1880's .
- By exposing his jarring findings to New York's upper and middle classes, Riis helped set the tone for future "muckraking" journalism.
- A poor Danish immigrant, Riis blamed the deplorable conditions of the New York slums on the obliviousness of the city's higher classes, and hoped that, if higher class people were made more aware of the slums' condition, they would be motivated to help eradicate the problem.
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- How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s.
- In January of 1888, Jacob Riis bought a detective camera and went on an expedition to gather images of what life was like in the slums of New York City.
- This not only involved Riis taking his own photos but also his using the images of other photographers.
- In February 1889, Riis wrote a magazine article based on his lectures in Scribner's Magazine, which was a resounding success.
- The 1890 publication of Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives stirred public concern about New York tenements.
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- "Muckraking" journalists such as Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens and Jacob Riis exposed corruption in business and government along with rampant inner city poverty.
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- Realist journalists, also called "muckrakers," included Jacob Riis and cartoonist Art Young.
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- Fremont Older (1856–1935) - wrote on San Francisco corruption and on the case of Tom Mooney Jacob Riis (1849–1914) - How the Other Half Lives, the slums Charles Edward Russell (1860–1941) — investigated Beef Trust, Georgia's prison Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) — The Jungle (1906), U.S. meat-packing industry, and the books in the "Dead Hand" series that critique the institutions (journalism, education, etc.) that could but did not prevent these abuses.
- Illustration of Theodore Roosevelt and Jacob Riis walking the beat in NYC in 1894 when Roosevelt was New York City Police Commissioner, 1901
- Riis walks the beat in New York City behind his friend and fellow reformer, NYC Police Commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt (1894 - Illustration from Riis's autobiography)
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- Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey.
- Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey.
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- German immigrant John Jacob Astor was the first millionaire in the United States
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- Following similar frustrations against the rule and policies of James II as the Bostonians, German American merchant and militia captain Jacob Leisler seized control of the southern part of the colony of New York and ruled it from 1689 to 1691.
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- "In the nineteenth century, saws and axes made in New England cleared the forests of Ohio; New England ploughs broke the prairie sod, New England scales weighed wheat and meat in Texas; New England serge clothed businessmen in San Francisco; New England cutlery skinned hides to be tanned in Milwaukee and sliced apples to be dried in Missouri; New England whale oil lit lamps across the continent; New England blankets warmed children by night and New England textbooks preached at them by day; New England guns armed the troops; and New England dies, lathes, looms, forges, presses and screwdrivers outfitted factories far and wide. " - Jane Jacobs, The Economy of Cities, 1969