Riis won international acclaim for this bestseller of that year‚ “How the Other Half Lives‚” an in-depth expose on the desperate and squalid conditions of New York City’s tenements and slums. Riis’ book provided impetus to a sanitary reform movement that began in the 1840s and ultimately culminated in New York State’s landmark Tenement House Act of 1901. Jacob August Riis‚ journalist‚ author‚ photographer and social reformer‚ was born in Ribe‚ Denmark‚ in 1849 and immigrated to the United States
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called tenement houses‚ were constructed for the sole purpose of holding the largest number of people as possible (History.com). These buildings were usually built on lots 25X100 ft. (Dolkart). This size lot would hold at least 20 families. The rooms were normally around 11x13 ft. These buildings were one after another‚ and one behind the other. There was little to no ventilation in these apartment houses‚ especially in the interior rooms. Indoor plumbing was not available to most tenement dwellers
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Dear Diary Journal‚ September 30‚ 1900 A couple of days ago‚ my mom bought me this journal for my 9th birthday. She had told me that this journal she had bought was pretty cheap‚ but I did not believe her. Most school utensils like pencils were way too expensive. But it’s not like I have time to be going to school or anything of that sort. I need to make money by working at the factory not wasting money
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gave them a better opportunity to succeed‚ life was not glorious for the European immigrants. Fighting for a better life their were many barriers to their success. Whether it was not being able to speak English‚ living in the terrible conditions of tenements‚ or the limitations of being an immigrant life was difficult for the immigrants. Many Americans were oblivious to the conditions that the immigrants had dealt with until the publishing of How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis. How the Other Half
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries‚ middle class Americans saw the need for changes. Reform was needed in society‚ politics‚ and economics. The problems of overcrowding in cities‚ corruption in government‚ as well as unsafe and indifferent working conditions all needed to be addressed. A wide variety of people advocated for major reforms that would make the United States more democratic‚ but Progressive Reformers differed on their goals‚ as well as their methods. This lack of an ability
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lack of it because of the hardships people in these tenements face. For example‚ in the “Bohemian cigar makers” photograph‚ the vision of work equipment in a place where people are supposed to relax would bring a sense of discomfort to other believers. The emphasis on “making a living” in Riis’s photograph of the tenement‚ shows the lack of comfort that these people felt in their own homes. This is different from the image called “Room in a tenement flat” that seems to show people who were ready for
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in the Union‚ as respects the habitations of the industrial classes - one represented by New-York and Boston‚ where the working people are crowded into large tenement-houses‚ and the other‚ of which Philadelphia‚ Buffalo and Detroit are examples‚ where the working man has the inestimable blessing of his own house‚ hold in fee.. The tenement-house system breeds poverty‚ disease and vice. It tends steadily to degrade and therefore to impoverish the working classes. Under it‚ the laborer knows nothing
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workers. 5. Clearly‚ the kids are sleeping maybe from a long night of work since it is still day time. 6. The children appear to be asleep on top of a storm drain near a house or tenement; it is noticeable by the window and gutter. It most likely is a tenement due to workers live closely to factories. The tenements most likely were too crowded for the children to sleep inside them‚ so they sleep outside in the cold. 7. This photo is definitely spontaneous due to it is really hard to get kids to
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How the Other Half Lives is a book that is written and published by Jacob Riis in 1890. Chapter two of the book‚ The Awakening‚ is one of the primary documents included in the reader. In this book‚ Jacob Riis describes in full details of the horrendous and disgusting living conditions that many immigrants had to live in. Jacob Riis is a photojournalist that “muckrakes”‚ or basically to expose something harsh that an individual or a group of people has to go through. Specifically‚ the author shows
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began facing more and more included the rise in poor sanitation and health concerns in local tenement housing. In order for women to gain access to the public sphere and emerge out of the private sphere‚ and gain some sort of status with the men of society‚ Jane Addams proposed the idea of “civic housekeeping” which would let women use their skills from the home in order to clean up the issues in local tenement housing and ultimately‚ in the local government1. Growing up in the post-Civil War era‚
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