Research Catalog

Title

How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York : with related documents / by Jacob A. Riis ; edited with an introduction by David Leviatin.

Author

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

Publication

Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Leviatin, David, 1961-

Description

xv, 299 p. : ill., plans; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Bedford series in history and culture

Uniform Title

Bedford series in history and culture

Subject

• Poor > New York (State) > New York
• Tenement houses > New York (State) > New York
• Slum
• New York (NY)

Note

• Originally published: New York : Scribner, 1890.
• "As in the first edition, my goal for this second edition has been to produce a text that resembles, as closely as possible, the original 1890 edition ... The only substantive change is the inclusion of the full-frame contact prints from the Jacob A. Riis Collection of the Museum of the City of New York that were made by the Chicago Albumen Works in 1994"--P. xi.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 289) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part one. Framing the poor : the irresistibility of How the other half lives. The flash : Jacob Riis discovers light ; The American scene : the search for order ; How the other half looks : interpreting Riis's view of poverty -- Part two. How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York -- Part three. Related documents. Jacob A. Riis, The other half and how they live : story in pictures, November 9, 1891 ; Six illustrations from the 1890 edition of How the other half lives -- Appendices. A Jacob A. Riis chronology (1849-1914) ; Questions for consideration.

ISBN

• 9780312574017 (pbk.)
• 0312574010 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010928030

OCLC

• 682581715
• SCSB-12665533

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library