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LL/112654
Jacob A. Riis
The Short-Tail Gang, Corlears Hook, under the Pier at the foot of Jackson Street
1887
Gelatin silver print
10 x 8 in.
 
Archive Farms
The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2009.038
 
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LL/33238
Jacob A. Riis
Eldridge Street Police Station Lodger: An Ancient Lodger and the Plank on Which She Slept
1888 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
 
Museum of the City of New York
Courtesy Jacob A. Riis Collection, © Museum of the City of New York
 
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LL/44780
Jacob A. Riis
N.Y.C. Tenement House
1888 (ca, taken) 1930s (print)
Gelatin silver print
23.9 x 29.1 cm (sheet)
 
Yale University Art Gallery
Gift of Dr. J. Patrick Kennedy, 2007.197.4
 
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LL/59225
Jacob A. Riis
Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement - Five cents a spot
1889
Gelatin silver print
 
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York
Also available on Wikipedia Commons.
 
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LL/106035
Jacob A. Riis
Sweatshop in Hester Street
1889 (taken) 1946 (print)
Gelatin silver print
7 7/8 x 9 3/4 in.
 
Archive Farms
The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2015.879
 
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LL/39209
Jacob A. Riis
Bandits' Roost [58 1-2 Mulberry Street]
1890 (before)
 
Creative Commons - Wikipedia
 
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LL/52029
Jacob A. Riis
"Washing Up" in the Newsboys' lodging house
1890 (ca)
Gelatin dry plate negative
 
Museum of the City of New York
90.13.1.168
 
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LL/52030
Jacob A. Riis
Duane Street Newsboys' Lodging House, John & Willie.
1890 (ca)
Gelatin dry plate negative
 
Museum of the City of New York
90.13.1.177
 
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LL/7734
Jacob A. Riis
[Untitled]
[How the Other Half Lives]
1890 (ca)
 
Museum Dr. Guislain
Courtesy of the Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium
 
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LL/44779
Jacob A. Riis
Italian Baby in Jersey St.
1890 (ca, taken) 1946 (after, print)
Gelatin silver print
19 x 24 cm (image) 20.5 x 25.3 cm (sheet)
 
Yale University Art Gallery
Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund, 2008.205.4
 
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LL/44778
Jacob A. Riis
Street Arabs with Beer Keg (Sleeping Quarters)
1890 (ca, taken) 1946 (after, print)
Gelatin silver print
24.7 x 19.8 cm (image) 25.2 x 20.4 cm (sheet)
 
Yale University Art Gallery
Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund, 2008.205.6
 
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LL/100865
Jacob A. Riis
Ready for Sabbath Eve in a Coal Cellar - a cobbler in Ludlow Street.
1890 (ca, taken) 1994 (copy)
Photograph, printing-out paper
 
Museum of the City of New York
90.13.4.291
 
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LL/25431
Jacob A. Riis
The Short-Tail Gang, Corlears Hook
1890 (taken) 1950s-1960s (print)
Gelatin silver print
10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
 
Swann Galleries - New York
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Dec 13, 2007, Sale 2132 Lot 330)
 
LL/25431 [Further details available]

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LL/100831
Jacob A. Riis
A denizen of the Bend, in a compromising position.
1895
Photograph, printing-out paper
 
Museum of the City of New York
90.13.4.276
 
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LL/100833
Jacob A. Riis
Arch under the first rear tenement at 55 Baxter Street leading to the second rear, with stairs up which Vincenzo Nino went to murder his wife in 1895. House believed to be haunted.
1895
Photograph, printing-out paper
 
Museum of the City of New York
90.13.4.278
 
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LL/100832
Jacob A. Riis
Baxter Street Alley, directly in the rear of Bandits' Roost.
1895
Photograph, printing-out paper
 
Museum of the City of New York
90.13.4.277
 
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LL/100827
Jacob A. Riis
Stale Bread Vendor, Mulberry Bend.
1895
Photograph, printing-out paper
 
Museum of the City of New York
90.13.4.272
 
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LL/100835
Jacob A. Riis
The Homestead in the Bend -- the original dwelling with the Mulberry Grove.
1895
Gelatin dry plate negative
 
Museum of the City of New York
90.13.1.274
 
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LL/100830
Jacob A. Riis
The last Mulberry -- said to be one of the old trees -- in yard of 41, behind the old Homestead. It isn't. Is probably an old [last word illegible].
1895
Photograph, printing-out paper
 
Museum of the City of New York
90.13.4.275
 
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LL/100834
Jacob A. Riis
The rear room in the top floor of 55 Baxter Steet in which Mrs. Nino was murdered -- since deserted. On May 23, the splash of blood on floor and walls was there yet.
1895
Photograph, printing-out paper
 
Museum of the City of New York
90.13.4.279
 
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LL/100828
Jacob A. Riis
Bandit's Roost with St. Rocco's altar in the rear, at the bottom of the alley.
1895, 23 May
Photograph, printing-out paper
 
Museum of the City of New York
90.13.4.273
 
LL/100828 [Further details available]

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LL/80198
Jacob A. Riis
From Rogue's Gallery: Two Western toughs "holding each other up".
1897 (ca)
Gelatin silver print, mixed-media
 
Museum of the City of New York
90.13.3.1
 
LL/80198 [Further details available]

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LL/39226
Jacob A. Riis
A Black-and-Tan Dive in Africa
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
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LL/39232
Jacob A. Riis
A Downtown Morgue
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
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LL/39233
Jacob A. Riis
A Growler Gand in Session
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
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LL/39222
Jacob A. Riis
A Market Street in the Jewish Quarter
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
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LL/39218
Jacob A. Riis
An All-Night Two-Cent Restaurant, in "The Bend"
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
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LL/39210
Jacob A. Riis
Bandits' Roost
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
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LL/39225
Jacob A. Riis
Bohemian Cigarmakers at Work in their Tenement
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
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LL/39216
Jacob A. Riis
Bottle Alley
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
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LL/39230
Jacob A. Riis
Didn't Live Nowhere
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
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LL/39231
Jacob A. Riis
Getting Ready for Supper in the Newsboys' Lodging House
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
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LL/39212
Jacob A. Riis
Hell's Kitchen and Sebastopol
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
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LL/39220
Jacob A. Riis
In a Chinese Joint
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
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LL/39228
Jacob A. Riis
In Poverty Gap, West Twenty-Eighth St. An English Coal-Heaver's Home
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
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LL/39214
Jacob A. Riis
In the Home of an Italian Rag-picker, Jersey Street
1897 (published)
Book illustration, after photograph
 
Harvard University Library
 
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LL/39224
Jacob A. Riis
Knee-pants at Forty-five Cents a Dozen - A Ludlow Street Sweater's Shop
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
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LL/39217
Jacob A. Riis
Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement - "Five cents a spot"
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
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LL/39229
Jacob A. Riis
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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LL/39235
Jacob A. Riis
Sewing and Starving in an Elizabeth Street Attic
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
LL/39235 [Further details available]

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LL/39215
Jacob A. Riis
The Bend
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
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LL/39221
Jacob A. Riis
The Official Organ of Chinatown
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
LL/39221 [Further details available]

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LL/39223
Jacob A. Riis
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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LL/39219
Jacob A. Riis
The Tramp
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
LL/39219 [Further details available]

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LL/39234
Jacob A. Riis
Typical Toughs (From the Rogues' Gallery)
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
LL/39234 [Further details available]

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LL/39213
Jacob A. Riis
Upstairs in Blindman's Alley
1897 (published)
Book illustration
 
Harvard University Library
 
LL/39213 [Further details available]

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LL/2055
Jacob A. Riis
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]
 
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LL/1936
Jacob A. Riis
A New York Tenement Flat
1910 (ca)
 
Location and source information requested
 
LL/1936

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LL/49288
Jacob A. Riis
Book cover for Jacob A. Riis Children of the Tenements
n.d.
Book cover
 
Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd
 
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LL/49289
Jacob A. Riis
Book cover for Jacob A. Riis How the Other Half Lives
n.d.
Book cover
 
Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd
 
LL/49289

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LL/49334
Jacob A. Riis
Book cover for Jacob A. Riis How the Other Half Lives (Dover)
n.d.
Book cover
 
Amazon - USA
 
LL/49334

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LL/49290
Jacob A. Riis
Book cover for Jacob A. Riis How the Other Half Lives (Penguin Classics)
n.d.
Book cover
 
Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd
 
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LL/49294
Jacob A. Riis
Book cover for Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives: A Jacob Riis Classic
n.d.
Book cover
 
Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd
 
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LL/28339
Jacob A. Riis
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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LL/16693
Jacob A. Riis
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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LL/52251
Jacob A. Riis
Book cover for Jacob Riis, 1890, How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons)
1890
Book cover
 
Swann Galleries - New York
Auction, 12 Dec 2013, Sale no: 2335, Lot: 30
 
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LL/47265
Jacob A. Riis
Book cover for Jacob A. Riis "The Children of the Poor" (London: Sampson Low, Marston, & Company, 1892)
1892
Book cover
22 x 15.5 cm
 
Ader Nordmann
Auction "Livres de photographies", 22 March 2012, Lot: 267
 
LL/47265 [Further details available]

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LL/39211
Jacob A. Riis
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
 
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LL/47266
Jacob A. Riis
Book cover for Jacob A. Riis "How the other half lives" (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901)
1901
Book cover
19.5 x 13.5 cm
 
Ader Nordmann
Auction "Livres de photographies", 22 March 2012, Lot: 268
 
LL/47266 [Further details available]

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LL/64769
Jacob A. Riis
Book cover for Jacob A. Riis, 1902, The Battle With the Slum, (New York: The Macmillan Company)
1902
Book cover
 
Archive Farms
 
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LL/64770
Jacob A. Riis
Book cover for Jacob A. Riis, 1903, The Making of An American, (New York: The Macmillan Company)
1903
Book cover
 
Archive Farms
 
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LL/49292
Jacob A. Riis
Book cover for Alexander Alland Sr, Jacob A. Riis: Photographer and Citizen, (New York: Aperture, 1993)
1993
Book cover
 
Amazon - USA
 
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LL/49327
Jacob A. Riis
Book cover for Janet B. Pascal, 2005, Jacob Riis: Reporter and Reformer (Oxford University Press, USA)
2005
Book cover
 
Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd
 
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LL/49291
Jacob A. Riis
Book cover for Bonnie Yochelson & Daniel Czitrom,Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York, (New York: New Press, 2007)
2007
Book cover
 
Amazon - USA
 
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LL/67139
Jacob A. Riis
Book cover for Bonnie Yochelson, 2016, Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half: A Complete Catalog of His Photographs, (Yale University Press in association with the Library of Congress and the Museum of the City of New York)
2016
Book cover
 
Amazon - USA
 
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LL/39236
Jacob A. Riis
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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LL/114405
Jacob A. Riis
Manuscript draft for How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
1897 (before)
Book page, handwritten
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
 
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LL/39227
Jacob A. Riis
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
 
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LL/17963
Jacob A. Riis
Birthplace of Jacob Riis, Ribe, Denmark
1987, Summer
Color print
 
Provided by the artists - Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer
Courtesy of Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer
 
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Contents - Themes & Fragments
Architecture - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
Architecture - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers
Babies - Introduction to babies
Cityscapes - Urban - Early examples of using photography to provide a social commentary
Cityscapes - Urban - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
Cityscapes - Urban - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers
Consumables - Bread and flour-based products
Consumables - Opium
Consumables - Smoking, cigarettes, cigars, pipes and hookahs
Documentary - Documentary photography and advocacy
Documentary - Early examples of using photography to provide a social commentary
Documentary - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
Documentary - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers
Early social commentary - Early examples of using photography to provide a social commentary
Early social commentary - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
Early social commentary - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers
Evidence - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
Evidence - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers
Family life - Introduction to family life
Family life - Markets
Family life - Motherhood
Genre studies - Markets
History of photography - American photobooks
Homelessness - Homelessness
Housing conditions - Introduction to housing conditions
Housing conditions - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
Housing conditions - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers
Leisure - Leisure: Needle crafts, sewing, knitting and crochet
Magic lanterns - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
Magnesium light - Magnesium light in use
New York - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
New York - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers
Photobooks - American photobooks
Poverty - Introduction to poverty
Poverty - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
Poverty - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers
Retouching, colouring and painting kits - Introduction to retouching
Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860) - Opium
Social life and meeting places - Markets
Social outsiders - Introduction to the portraiture of social outsiders
Sports and pastimes - Leisure: Needle crafts, sewing, knitting and crochet
Street - Different perspectives on nineteenth century street photography
Urban life - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
Urban life - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers
Urban life - Markets
USA - American photobooks
USA - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
USA - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers
Working conditions - Introduction to working conditions
Working conditions - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
Working conditions - Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers


 
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