How the other half lives : txt studies among the tenements of New York. /
Riis, Jacob A. 1849-1914,
How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York. / txt Jacob A. Riis ; edited by Sam Bass Warner, Jr. ; introduction by Alan Trachtenberg. - 185p. ill. ; photo ; 26 cm. book 1 online resource (xxxix, 315 pages) : illustrations. book - The John Harvard library . - John Harvard library. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-308) and index.
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 cigarmaking -- 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.
Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions. Jacob Riis's pioneering work of photojournalism takes its title from Rabelais's Pantagruel: "One half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth; considering that no one has yet written of that Country." An anatomy of New York City's slums in the 1880s, it vividly brought home to its first readers through the powerful combination of text and images the squalid living conditions of "the other half," who might well have inhabited another country. The book pricked the conscience of its readers and raised the tenement into a symbol of intransigent social difference. As Alan Trachtenberg makes clear in his introduction, it is a book that still speaks powerfully to us today of social injustice. Except for the modernization of spelling and punctuation, the John Harvard Library edition of How the Other Half Lives reproduces the text of the first published book version of November 1890. For this edition, prints have been made from Riis's original photographs now in the archives of the Museum of the City of New York. Endnotes aid the contemporary reader.
0674056825 9780674056824 9781438296630
Tenement houses--New York (State)--New York.
Poor--New York (State)--New York.
Pauvres--New York --New York.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Electronic books.
Pictorial works.
HV4046.N6 / R22 2010
305.5/69097471
How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York. / txt Jacob A. Riis ; edited by Sam Bass Warner, Jr. ; introduction by Alan Trachtenberg. - 185p. ill. ; photo ; 26 cm. book 1 online resource (xxxix, 315 pages) : illustrations. book - The John Harvard library . - John Harvard library. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-308) and index.
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 cigarmaking -- 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.
Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions. Jacob Riis's pioneering work of photojournalism takes its title from Rabelais's Pantagruel: "One half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth; considering that no one has yet written of that Country." An anatomy of New York City's slums in the 1880s, it vividly brought home to its first readers through the powerful combination of text and images the squalid living conditions of "the other half," who might well have inhabited another country. The book pricked the conscience of its readers and raised the tenement into a symbol of intransigent social difference. As Alan Trachtenberg makes clear in his introduction, it is a book that still speaks powerfully to us today of social injustice. Except for the modernization of spelling and punctuation, the John Harvard Library edition of How the Other Half Lives reproduces the text of the first published book version of November 1890. For this edition, prints have been made from Riis's original photographs now in the archives of the Museum of the City of New York. Endnotes aid the contemporary reader.
0674056825 9780674056824 9781438296630
Tenement houses--New York (State)--New York.
Poor--New York (State)--New York.
Pauvres--New York --New York.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Electronic books.
Pictorial works.
HV4046.N6 / R22 2010
305.5/69097471