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    in Ribe, Denmark, Jacob Riis was the third of the 15 children (one of whom, an orphaned niece, was fostered) of Niels Edward Riis, a schoolteacher and...
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    Jacob Riis Park, also called Jacob A. Riis Park and Riis Park, is a seaside park on the southwestern portion of the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York...
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    Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s...
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    The Jacob Riis Houses are a public housing project managed by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) in the East Village in New York City. The project...
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    Margaret Deland, Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce, and J. D. Salinger. Jacob August Riis (1849–1914), a Danish-American muckraker journalist, photographer...
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    Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a Spot (category Photographs by Jacob Riis)
    Danish-American photographer Jacob Riis, in 1889. It was included in his photographic book How the Other Half Lives, published in 1890. Riis documented the poor...
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    Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street (category Photographs by Jacob Riis)
    Danish-American photojournalist and social reformer Jacob Riis in 1888. The photograph was possibly not taken by Riis but instead by one of his assistant photographers...
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  • Riis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Asbjørn 'Bear' Riis (born 1957), Danish professional wrestler Bendik Riis (1911–1988), Norwegian...
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    Ragpickers Row. In 1897, due in part to the efforts of Danish photojournalist Jacob Riis, Mulberry Bend was demolished and turned into Mulberry Bend Park, an urban...
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  • of Friedberg's most notable projects was the Jacob Riis Plaza, undertaken in the mid-1960s. The Jacob Riis Complex is a series of 14-story buildings along...
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    to directly serve Jacob Riis Park, with Q35 buses in both directions using a stop on Rockaway Beach Boulevard in front of the Riis Park historic bathhouse...
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    some tolerance for nude beaches in the United States. An example was Jacob Riis Park, where nudity was limited to "Bay One" the northernmost section informally...
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    Street Arabs in the Area of Mulberry Street (category Photographs by Jacob Riis)
    American photographer Jacob Riis, probably in 1890. The designation of street arabs was given back then to homeless children. Riis took several pictures...
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  • ISBN 0-89236-681-8. "Jacob Riis Paintings, Bio, Ideas". The Art Story. Michael Burgan, Exposing Hidden Worlds: How Jacob Riis' Photos Became Tools for...
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    through 1909 advocating for prison reform and prohibition of alcohol. Jacob Riis (1849–1914) – author of How the Other Half Lives, advocating for changes...
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  • boys that they are at Jacob Riis. The girls finally return there and on their way finally pass Fort Tilden. Upon arrival at Jacob Riis they see the boys are...
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    and fishing spot on the north shore of the bay. Fort Tilden, between Jacob Riis Park and Breezy Point on the Rockaway peninsula, has some of the city's...
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    on January 11, 2009. Retrieved January 1, 2009. "Happy 60th Marcy and Jacob Riis House". Archived from the original on May 2, 2010. Retrieved October 24...
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    Edith Abbott, Sophonisba Breckinridge, Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, and Jacob Riis were influential reformers. Initially, the movement operated chiefly at...
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    of the Ashcan painters links them to such documentary photographers as Jacob Riis and Lewis W. Hine. Several Ashcan School painters derived from the area...
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    Commissioners of the New York Police Department. Parker received many visits from Jacob Riis, the photographer famous for documenting the lives of slum dwellers. After...
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    to the neighborhood. Slum clearance efforts (promoted in particular by Jacob Riis, author of How the Other Half Lives, published 1890), succeeded in razing...
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    social activist Jacob A. Riis, "friend of the tenement house children," campaigned for the creation of the park. In 1897, due in part to Riis's advocacy, Mulberry...
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  • Kelly Jack McManus Adolf Meyer J. P. Morgan Jesse Pomeroy Henry C. Potter Jacob Riis Theodore Roosevelt Lincoln Steffens Franz Boas The Alienist is set in...
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    from the toll plaza to Jacob Riis Park. Though a city-owned and operated bridge, it connects Floyd Bennett Field and Jacob Riis Park, which are both part...
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    names, is a former municipal tuberculosis sanatorium located adjacent to Jacob Riis Park and the Neponsit community on the western end of the Rockaway peninsula...
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    The Trench in Potter's Field (category Photographs by Jacob Riis)
    black and white photograph produced by Danish-American photographer Jacob A. Riis, probably in 1890, depicting a trench used as a mass grave for tenement...
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  • new form of documentary is the journalist and urban social reformer Jacob Riis. Riis was a New York police-beat reporter who had been converted to urban...
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    massive urban renewal. Five Points was not the only slum in America. Jacob Riis, Walker Evans, Lewis Hine and others photographed many before World War...
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    fiction, and with a directness only possible from a man who knows London as Jacob Riis knows New York. Shelden, Michael (1991). Orwell: The Authorized Biography...
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