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Iconic Photographs of Blind People Prove Seeing Isn't Knowing

In 1887 a police reporter named Jacob Riis stormed the tenements of New York armed with flashlight powder-an explosive form ...
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How the other half lives; studies among the tenements of New York, by Jacob A. Riis. With illustrations chiefly from photographs taken by the author

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 -- ...
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How the other half lives; studies among the tenements of New York, by Jacob A. Riis, with illustrations chiefly from photographs taken by the author

First published 1890, Charles Scribner's Sons. siris_sil_61208 ...