1849–1914 · Danish-American journalist and photographer
Jacob A. Riis
Jacob A. Riis (1849–1914) was a Danish-American journalist and pioneering photographer whose How the Other Half Lives exposed the squalor of New York's tenements and helped ignite the American housing-reform movement.
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Jacob A. Riis (1849–1914) was a Danish-American journalist and pioneering photographer whose How the Other Half Lives exposed the squalor of New York's tenements and helped ignite the American housing-reform movement. Theodore Roosevelt called him the most useful citizen of New York.
- Born
- 1849
- Died
- 1914
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