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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (Reprint Edition) by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis, Luc (Edited With An Introduction And Notes By) Sante Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 1997 ISBN-10: 0-14-043679-0 / 0140436790 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-043679-2 / 9780140436792 Jacob Riis's illustrated tour of New York's slums had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that changed the face of the city. In 1890, when the book was published, the Lower East Side was a landscape of teeming streets and filthy tenements crowded with immigrants livin |