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| Introduction | |
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| A Note on the Text | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| The Text of How the Other Half Lives | |
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| Contexts | |
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| Map: Lower Manhattan, Late 1800s | |
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| Map: The Five Points in the 1800s | |
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| About Riis-In his Own Words | |
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| From the Making of an American | |
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| Riis's Contemporaries Observe the "Other Half" | |
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| From The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work among Them | |
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| Tenement- house Morality | |
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| From the Poor in Great Cities | |
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| Nurseries of Crime | |
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| From the Housing of the Poor | |
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| From A Daughter of the Tenements | |
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| From Impressions and Experiences | |
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| From First Report of the Tenement House Department of the City of New York, 1902-03 | |
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| Tenement House Reform: Its Practical Results in the "Battle Row" District, New York | |
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| From The Leaven in a Great City | |
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| Proposals Affecting Immigration | |
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| From the Bitter Cry of the Children | |
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| Neighbors Anonymous | |
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| From the House on Henry Street | |
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| Contemporary Evaluations of Riis and How the Other Half Lives | |
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| Boston and "The Other Half" | |
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| The Making of Jacob A. Riis | |
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| From Comrades in Service | |
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| From An Autobiography | |
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| From The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens | |
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| Criticism | |
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| From Jacob A. Riis: Police Reporter, Reformer, Useful Citizen | |
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| Jacob Riis | |
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| From From the Depths: The Discovery of Poverty in the United States | |
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| From The Progressives and the Slums: Tenement House Reform in New York City, 1890-1917 | |
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| From Jacob A. Riis: Photographer and Citizen | |
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| From Jacob A. Riis and the American City | |
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| From From Main Street to State Street: Town, City, and Community in American Park | |
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| Jacob Riis and the Jews | |
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| From Silver Cities: Photographing American Urbanization, 1839-1939 | |
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| From Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in America, 1890-1950 | |
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| From Immigrant Mothers: Narratives of Race and Maternity, 1890-1925 | |
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| From Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's Urban Poor, 1825-2000 | |
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| From Slumming: Morality and Space in the New York City-from "City Mysteries" to the Harlem Renaissance | |
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| From "Unhuman Humanity": Bodies of the Urban Poor and the Collapse of Realist Legibility | |
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| Newsboy Funerals: Tables of Sorrow and Solidarity in Urban America | |
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| Street-Rates and Gutter-Snipes: Child Pickpockets and Street Culture in New York City, 1850-1900 | |
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| A Chronology | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |