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Jacob Riis: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, ed. by Hasia R. Diner (2010), provides the text and images of Riis’s most-important book along with contextualizing historical documents, critical essays, and a chronology. Works on Riis include Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom, Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York (2007); Tom Buk-Swienty, The Other Half: The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America (2008; originally published in Danish, 2005); and Alexander Alland, Sr., Jacob A. Riis: Photographer & Citizen (1974, reprinted 1993).

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Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. May 22, 2024
Anniversary information added. Apr 30, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 04, 2024
Add new Web site: Famous Photographers - Jacob Riis. Apr 25, 2022
Added information about his early life. Dec 17, 2020
Noted other books that Riis wrote. Oct 07, 2019
Top Questions updated. Apr 08, 2019
Add new Web site: Official Site of Jacob A. Riis Museum. Feb 07, 2019
Add new Web site: Official Site of Jacob A. Riis Museum. Feb 07, 2019
"Theodore Roosevelt, who would be elected U.S. president in 1900" changed to "Theodore Roosevelt, who would become U.S. president in 1901." Feb 27, 2018
Corrected display issue. Jan 25, 2018
Corrected display issue. Jan 05, 2018
Add new Web site: The Social Welfare History Project - Biography of Jacob Riis. Dec 26, 2016
Add new Web site: International Center of Photography - Biography of Jacob Riis. Dec 26, 2016
Changed article title from Jacob A. Riis to Jacob Riis. Nov 03, 2016
New bibliography added. Mar 31, 2015
Article revised. Mar 31, 2015
Add new Web site: National Park Service - Biography of Jacob Riis. Feb 19, 2013
Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Biography of Jacob Riis. Feb 19, 2013
Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Jacob Riis. Jul 27, 2012
Media added. Feb 26, 2009
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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