Any student and enthusiast of New York City’s urban development knows Jacob A. Riis, author of the book How The Other Half Lives. Whether you’re in class, have gone to one of the Tenement Museum’s ...

The New York Tribune press office at 301 Mulberry Street. Photo by Jacob A. Riis, Museum of the City of New York Collection The wood-framed buildings of Cat Alley and the vicinity photographed by Riis ...

The City Museum celebrates and interprets New York City, connecting its past, present and future. The Museum of the City of New York presents Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half, a one-of-a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A young girl holding a baby sits in a doorway in New York City, circa 1890.Jacob A. Riis/Museum of the City of New York/Getty ...

Jacob A. Riis is known to many as the father of photojournalism and a muckraking reporter who exposed the plight of the urban poor in the late 19th century. Riis’ many published works drove a movement ...

Jacob Riis called this photo “I Scrubs,” after what the urchin Katie told him when he asked what kind of work she did.Museum of the City of New York He took haunting photos of New York City’s poorest, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York exhibition looks at the career of photojournalist Jacob Riis whose images of New York City’s slum conditions more than 100 years ago helped spur social reforms. “Jacob A.

Photos of late 19th century Lower East Side life like this one by Jacob Riis helped convince America that private companies could not build decent homes for the poor. Jacob A. Riis/Museum of the City ...

Jacob Riis may have set his house on fire twice, and himself aflame once, as he perfected the new 19th-century flash photography technique, but when the magnesium powder erupted with a white, blinding ...

Social reformer Jacob A. Riis, born in Ribe, Denmark in 1849, is still a famous name, but those who recognize it often have misconceptions about him. His photographs are famous, but he didn’t consider ...

Children saluting the flag in school, ca. 1890. Jacob A. Riis, © Bettmann/CORBIS Shoemaker working in house with $12 a month rent, 1895-1896. Jacob A. Riis ...