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	Jacob Riis
		Jacob Riis fought for the rights of children and for the rights of the many immigrants who lived in the East side of New York City.
		Riis wrote How the Other Half Lives, a book that exposed the horrible living conditions through the experience he gained as a police photographer and journalist for New York.
		Riis was not afraid to confront those he felt were responsible for the poor quality housing and disgusting living conditions.
	www.tufts.edu /programs/mma/fah189/2003/dan/riis (343 words)

	Fasi Alumni
		Jacob Riis worked as a social reformer from the early 1880s into the first decade of the 20th century.
		While Riis was undoubtedly racist and patronizing by contemporary standards, his overriding empathy for the circumstances of his poverty-stricken subjects, and his belief that environment made or at least contributed to criminal and antisocial behavior, pushed him toward pictures like these.
		In this case, Riis chose a particularly compelling example, for the making of cigars introduced the vice of tobacco to children and even infants, in the eyes of Riis and his Victorian audience.
	www.uic.edu /depts/oee/fasi/riissequence.html (875 words)

	Masters of Photography: Jacob Riis
		When Jacob A. Riis, a police reporter in New York, began his personal campaign to expose the misery of the underprivileged living in the crime-infested slums of the lower East side, he soon found that the printed word was not sufficiently convincing, and so he turned to photography by flashlight.
		Their purpose, Riis stated, was to make a collection of views for lantern slides to show "as no mere description could, the misery and vice that he had noticed in his ten years of experience...
		Riis succeeded in its use; the blinding flash reveals with pitiless detail the sordid interiors, but deals almost tenderly with the faces of those whose lot it was to live within them.
	www.masters-of-photography.com /R/riis/riis_articles2.html (664 words)

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		Jacob A. Riis worked as a reporter for the New York Tribune and the Associated Press Bureau for more than 11 years.
		Jacob wrote that the sights he saw “gripped my heart until I felt that I must tell of them, or burst, or turn anarchist, or something.” He used journalism to try to connect the rich and the poor.
		Jacob Riis always worked for a better life for those around him and he achieved a great deal of what he set out to do in his time.
	www.angelfire.com /nb/jacobriis/page3.html (315 words)

	Jacob Riis
		Jacob Riis knew the injustice he saw was perpetuated by his own peers who worked for the press, and he despised their brutal coldness.
		Jacob Riis was born in Ribe, Denmark to Niels and Carolina Riis and, early, he met the world as both kind and harsh.
		Jacob Riis was to use this dog, who had him want to live, to have a beautiful anger with injustice.
	www.lenbernstein.com /Pages/RiisArticle.html (3997 words)

	Jacob Riis
		Riis did a variety of menial jobs before finding work with a news bureau in New York in 1873.
		Aware of what it was like to live in poverty, Riis was determined to use this opportunity to employ his journalistic skills to communicate this to the public.
		Riis was among the first photographers to use flash powder, which enabled him to photograph interiors and exteriors of the slums at night.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAriis.htm (1089 words)

	The Masked Image
		Riis was the first journalist to use photographs as evidence of overcrowding, filth, and degradation in order to shock a complacent middle-class audience.
		Riis did not consider himself a photographer nor did he value his photographs as other than a means to an end.
		Riis was seen as a great artist, even though he never considered himself a photographer and even though there was no body of his work to assess as art.
	www.neh.gov /news/humanities/1998-05/riis.html (3093 words)

	Documenting "The Other Half": The Social Reform Photography of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine
		Riis argued for better housing, adequate lighting and sanitation, and the construction of city parks and playgrounds.
		Riis believed that charitable citizens would help the poor when they saw for themselves how "the other half" lived.
		Riis believed that moral citizens, regardless of their economic status, should be given a chance to improve their lives.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/Davis/photography/riis/riis.html (355 words)

	Jacob Riis and Stephen Crane: A View of the Slums of NYC
		Jacob Riis was born in 1894 and immigrated to the United States as a young boy.
		Jacob Riis’s work was an instant success and his novel greatly influenced progressive reformers who over the next decade conducted housing investigations and passed building codes for the tenement areas.
		Riis in How the Other Half Lives dedicates a chapter to the story of the “Working Girls of New York.” In the chapter, Riis writes that many women in the absence of a steady income must turn to prostitution in the poor conditions of surrounding the tenements.
	www.louisville.edu /~aswors01/riis.htm (464 words)

	Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Photographer, Journalist, Social Reformer
		America's first photojournalist, Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was born in Denmark and emigrated to the United States in 1870.
		Riis captured the material conditions of the poor and the homeless with a sympathetic eye, and his photographs continue to be among the most widely circulated and reproduced in the history of the medium.
		"Riis remains important and intriguing because our society still struggles to resolve many of the problems and issues he addressed," says Czitrom, an expert on New York City history and a consultant on last year's PBS documentary series on the city's past.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/020901/riis.shtml (590 words)

	Jacob Riis: Robert Leggat's History of Photography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jacob Riis arrived in America as an immigrant from Denmark at the age of 21.
		One day Riis returned to his office to find a note reading "I have read your book and I have come to help." It was from the (then) head of the New York Police Board of Commissioners, Theodore Roosevelt, later to become President of the United States.
		Riis was offered public office on more than one occasion, but always refused.
	www.rleggat.com /photohistory/history/riis.htm (434 words)

	The Newark Metro: Jacob Riis, Writer With a Camera
		Born and raised in Denmark, Jacob Riis immigrated to the United States in 1870.
		Riis is famous for his descriptions of The Bend, “where Mulberry Street crooks like an elbow within hail of the old depravity of the Five Points foul core of New York’s slums.” In this story, Riis mentions a stunning census, which returned only 24 of the 609 tenements to livable condition.
		Riis’ description of a police raid on a beer dive is humorously cynical: “A raid was on foot, but whether on the Chinese fan-tan games, on the opium joints of Mott and Pell Streets, or on dens of even worse character, was a matter of guess-work in the men’s room.
	www.newarkmetro.rutgers.edu /essays/display.php?id=120 (1067 words)

	Riis Jacob August - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Riis, Jacob August (1849-1914), American social reformer and writer, born in Ribe, Denmark.
		Riis came to the United States in 1870 as a carpenter....
		Epstein, Sir Jacob (1880-1959), British sculptor of portraits and monumental figures.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Riis_Jacob_August.html (113 words)

	Jacob Riis - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Jacob Riis - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Riis, Jacob August (1849-1914), American social reformer, photographer, and journalist.
		Jacob August Riis was born in Ribe, Denmark, and came to...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Jacob_Riis.html (101 words)

	Jacob Riis
		Jacob Riis was born in Ribe, Denmark during 1849.
		Riis began using flash powder which allowed him to photograph interiors as well as exteriors, providing images of slum live never before available.
		Riis not only used his photographs to illustrate his articles, but for three decades to illustrate lectures he gave throughout the country.
	histclo.com /bio/r/bio-riis.html (672 words)

	BIOGRAPHY OF JACOB RIIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jacob Riis immigrated to the United States from Denmark in 1870.
		Jacob Riis employed a blend of reporting, reform and photography that made him a unique legend in all three fields.
		Theodore Roosevelt held Riis in very high esteem offering him positions of power and influence in his administration and calling him, "the most useful citizen of New York".
	www.idbsu.edu /socwork/dhuff/history/gallery/Gallery-JR/BIO.htm (215 words)

	AHDS Visual Arts - explore collections
		The student is encouraged to interact with the program by developing an analysis of Riis' work as it is presented and recording it on the Windows Notepad, which is activated by the program.
		Jacob Riis was born in Denmark in 1849 and emigrated to the United States in the 1870's.
		He began his photographic career as a press photographer, but the cycle of boom and bust meant that his living was precarious and he passed through a number of occupations before becoming a police reporter.
	vads.ahds.ac.uk /collections/JRCAL.html (636 words)

	Jacob Riis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Riis knew how to evoke emotion with his photographs.
		Well the photographs of Riis are arguably worth a lot more.
		- Riis was born in Denmark in 1849 and immigrated to the United States in 1870
	www.arches.uga.edu /~blkirk/webpage/riis.html (181 words)

	LIFE HEROES CLUB
		Jacob A. Riis, journalist, lecturer, and photographer, stirred the souls of an apathetic middle-class with his words and images of Manhattan's sordid family housing, and saved the lives of countless fellow immigrants.
		By the time Riis arrived, the city had begun to mandate improvements in the crowded tenements and required one toilet for every 20 people ("an ostensible means of flushing" would not be legislated until 1888).
		Please join LIFE magazine as we induct Jacob August Riis--along with the pens and cameras he used to expose and cleanse the muck of urban life--into the Hall of Heroes.
	www.life.com /Life/heroes/newsletters/nlriis.html (822 words)

	Jacob Riis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		How the Other Half Lives, not only told the story of the poor in New York, but also contained photographs by Riis, many of which were only possible because of recent technological innovations in photography that allowed images to be captured in dark interiors and alleyways at night as well as in daylight.
		Riis was a friend of both Roosevelt, whom he knew when Roosevelt served as New York's police commissioner, as well as Lincoln Steffens.
		He was important to the muckraking movement as a mentor to a young Steffens, who would later become one of the most influential muckrakers as both the editor of McClure's and a writer who exposed political corruption in America's cities.
	www.pace.edu /library/pages/links/muckrakers/Pages/Riis.htm (201 words)

	Teddy Roosevelt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jacob Riis was a valuable friend and source of information for Roosevelt when he became a New York City police commissioner in the spring of 1895.
		, Riis understood the reforms needed within the police department, as well as the evils in the slums, which he frequented to gather stories.
		Riis was successful in awakening public awareness to the plight of New York's tenement population, especially the children, in several books, including his classic
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/roosevelt/riis.htm (104 words)

	Jacob A(ugust) Riis Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Jacob Riis was not one of America's bestknown newspapermen, but unlike most of them he claims a relatively prominent place in the country's social history.
		He was a leader in the reform movement that began to take clear shape in America in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and more than any other he is identified with the move to relieve the slum conditions oppressing the hapless immigrants in New York City.
		Jacob August Riis was born in the conservative old town of Rib.....
	www.bookrags.com /biography/jacob-august-riis-dlb (219 words)

	City-Gallery.com - Jacob Riis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		acob Riis was a pioneer in using photography to promote the cause of social justice.
		Riis's How the Other Half Lives, published in 1890, was a remarkable study of the deplorable living conditions endured by the poor in New York City.
		His use of the camera to bring light to the circumstances and destitution of early immigrants to this nation became a model for judging the merits of photography in the following decades.
	www.city-gallery.com /learning/bio/riis.php (117 words)

	The American Experience \| America 1900 \| People & Events
		Jacob "Jake" Riis, the Danish-born journalist and photographer, was among the most dedicated advocates for America's oppressed, exploited, and downtrodden.
		Alerted to the inhumane conditions endured by many of New York's inhabitants, Theodore Roosevelt accompanied Riis on his rounds of tenement houses and back alleys.
		By 1900, Riis's mission began to yield results: city water was purified, incidences of yellow fever, smallpox, and cholera were waning, and efforts to establish child labor laws were underway.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/1900/peopleevents/pande11.html (136 words)

	About Jacob Riis: Richmond Hill Historical Society
		Jacob Riis wrote of his times for a big city newspaper, the New York Evening Sun.
		One of the early residents of Richmond Hill, NY, he came to this country as a young immigrant from his native Denmark at the age of 21, in 1870.
		Often these men—one the reporter in the modern, investigative tradition, the other one someday to be our 26th President of the United States but then the head of the New York Police Board of Commissioners—would go off into the gas-lighted night without hint of what they would find.
	www.richmondhillhistory.org /jriis.html (871 words)

	Lela Riis Agnew article about Jacob Riis - richmondhillhistory.org
		The following article was written by Lela Riis Agnew, great-great granddaughter of Jacob and Elisabeth Riis, during her visit to Richmond Hill in November 2004.
		I knelt down to touch the stone that Jacob laid in honor of his little "Lammet" and I closed my eyes thinking about her days in America.
		While the home was sadly tom down in the 1970s, I was happy to hear that progress is being made in the Richmond Hill area to protect places on the National Register of Historic Places and establish zoning ordinances that preserve the integrity of the community.
	www.richmondhillhistory.org /LelaRiis.shtml (1102 words)

	Jacob Riis Tours NewYork City's Fourth Ward
		Jacob Riis—a journalist and photographer of industrial America and himself a Danish immigrant—exposed the deplorable conditions of late nineteenth-century urban life in his widely-read book, How the Other Half Lives, published in 1890.
		Despite his own immigrant background, Riis‘ attitudes mirrored the prejudices of the dominant culture toward “foreigners,” as revealed in this stereotyped description of an immigrant neighborhood on New York’s Lower East Side.
		Riis’ reports on immigrant life—and his equally famous photographs—were important documents of urban conditions in late nineteenth-century urban America.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5718 (1835 words)

	Representing the Depression: Jacob Riis
		Riis gave public lectures using lantern slides and full multimedia presentation.
		Riis, Jacob A. How the Other Half Lives Studies Among the Tenements of New York.
		Jacob Riis Revisited Poverty and the Slum in Another Era.
	www.thispublicaddress.com /depression/riis.html (171 words)

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