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This particular digitized image was originally part of a preview of an article on Riis to be published on The Atlantic Monthly in 1899. Even though a specific date of the article's publication is not mentioned, it could be assumed that this preview…

This is the front cover of Riis' book The Making of an American, which was written after Riis' groundbreaking book How The Other Half Lives. The portrait of Jacob Riis is prominent on the cover.

This drawing by W.H. Drake was originally used in the Forty-First Annual Report of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, for the year 1884 as a illustration of slums located in Jersey Street. Years later, in 1902, Riis…

This photograph of Little Susie was originally found on pages 109 and 110 in Jacob Riis' "The Children of the Poor".

This photograph of a Jewish man preparing for the Sabbath Eve in his coal cellar with two loaves of bread on the table was originally found on page 27 of Jacob Riis' 1892 book "The Children of the Poor".