Jacob A. Riis

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

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Jacob A. Riis



How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting…

Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half

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Jacob A. Riis



These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…

The Ontario Readers: Third Book

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The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…

Christmas Short Works Collection 2019

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2019 collection of items with a Christmas theme containing traditional stories, Christmas traditions, Christmas cakes. We hope you will enj…

Out of Mulberry Street

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Jacob A. Riis



These riveting accounts by Jacob A. Riis are from the late 19th century, when lower Manhattan was teeming with struggling, near-starving imm…

The Making of an American

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Jacob A. Riis



Jacob Riis was an esteemed reporter and documentary photographer in New York City. In his autobiography he movingly recounts his early life …

LibriVox 10th Anniversary Collection

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This year is the 10th anniversary of our beloved LibriVox and to celebrate, readers have found and recorded 100 items with a connection to t…

Children of the Tenements

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Jacob A. Riis



This is a collection of vignettes about poverty in New York City in the early 1900s. Jacob Riis was a police reporter and a sociologist. He …

First Chapter Collection 002

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LibriVox First Chapter Collection 002 - a collection of the first chapters of 15 different books, chosen by LibriVox volunteers. This volume…

Christmas Short Works Collection 2015

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This year's Christmas collection of short stories, poems and non-fiction features readings in English, French, German and Romanian - Summary…