Jacob Riis (3 May 1849 - 26 May 1914)
1901 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
14.9 x 10 cm (5 7/8 x 3 15/16)
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
[NPG.90.120]
LL/2055
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Jacob Riis (3 May 1849 - 26 May 1914)
1900 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
24.5 cm x 14.2 cm (9 5/8 x 5 9/16)
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Gift of Howard Greenberg [NPG.96.16]
LL/2054
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Book cover for Jacob August Riis "How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York" by Jacob A. Riis (Charles Schribners Publishers, 1890)
1890
Book cover
Private collection of Edward Grazda
LL/16693
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Book cover for Jacob August Riis "How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York" (New York: Charles Scribners's Sons, 1890)
1890
Book cover
Christie's - New York
Christies - NY (Sale 2110: Lot 1 - April 10, 2008 - Fine Photobooks from an Important Private Collection)
LL/28339
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Title page for Jacob A. Riis "How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the tenements of New York" (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897)
1897 (published)
Title page
Harvard University Library
LL/39211
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Hell's Kitchen and Sebastopol
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39212 [Further details available]
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Upstairs in Blindman's Alley
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39213 [Further details available]
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In the Home of an Italian Rag-picker, Jersey Street
1897 (published)
Book illustration, after photograph
Harvard University Library
LL/39214 [Further details available]
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The Bend
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39215 [Further details available]
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Bandits' Roost
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39210 [Further details available]
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Bandits' Roost [58 1-2 Mulberry Street]
1890 (before)
Creative Commons - Wikipedia
LL/39209
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Bottle Alley
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39216 [Further details available]
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Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement - "Five cents a spot"
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39217 [Further details available]
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An All-Night Two-Cent Restaurant, in "The Bend"
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39218 [Further details available]
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The Tramp
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39219 [Further details available]
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In a Chinese Joint
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39220 [Further details available]
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The Official Organ of Chinatown
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39221 [Further details available]
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A Market Street in the Jewish Quarter
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39222 [Further details available]
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The Old Clo'e's Man - In the Jewish Quarters
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39223 [Further details available]
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Knee-pants at Forty-five Cents a Dozen - A Ludlow Street Sweater's Shop
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39224 [Further details available]
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Bohemian Cigarmakers at Work in their Tenement
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39225 [Further details available]
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A Black-and-Tan Dive in Africa
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39226 [Further details available]
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Bird's-Eye View of an East Side Tenement Block (from a drawing by Charles F. Wingate, Esq.)
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39227 [Further details available]
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In Poverty Gap, West Twenty-Eighth St. An English Coal-Heaver's Home
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39228 [Further details available]
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Prayer-time in the Nursery - Five Points House of Industry
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39229 [Further details available]
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Didn't Live Nowhere
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39230 [Further details available]
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Getting Ready for Supper in the Newsboys' Lodging House
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39231 [Further details available]
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A Downtown Morgue
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39232 [Further details available]
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A Growler Gand in Session
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39233 [Further details available]
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Typical Toughs (From the Rogues' Gallery)
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39234 [Further details available]
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Sewing and Starving in an Elizabeth Street Attic
1897 (published)
Book illustration
Harvard University Library
LL/39235 [Further details available]
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Lantern exhibition - The Other Half - How it lives and dies in New York
1888, 3 February
Magazine page
Google Books
LL/39236 [Further details available]
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