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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (Updated Edition) by Jacob August Riis, Charles A. (Preface By) Madison Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1971 ISBN-10: 0-486-22012-5 / 0486220125 ISBN-13: 978-0-486-22012-3 / 9780486220123 Jacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the twentieth century, when as many as 300,000 people per square mile were crowded into the tenements of New York's Lower East Side. The filth and degradation made the area a hell for the immigrants forced t |