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Seeds of Revolution – Photography’s Role in Social Progression
Jacob Riis
Jacob Riis is famous for his social documentary photography. In his book How the Other Half Lives, Riis used his photographs to reveal the squalid conditions New York’s poor were forced to live in. At the time, million New Yorkers lived in tenement housing, with several families per small unit. In , 5, people died from a cholera outbreak, most of whom were people living in overcrowded slums.
Tenement House Act
Though reforms had gone into place by (for example, The Tenement House Act of set construction regulations, one of which was a requirement for one toilet per every 20 people), a lot of things didn’t change, and many of America’s more privileged classes knew nothing about the horrors of tenement living. Riis’ photographs offered a first-hand look into these conditions – and real change came about as a result. President Roosevelt was personally inspired to lead change after reading Riis’ book How the Other Half Lives, and The Tenement House Law outlawed the construction of new tenements in How the Other Half Lives inspired journalists of the following decades to call on politicians, reformers, and city officials to change the ills they witnessed. Finally, wealthy tycoons of the Gilded age w
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Five Cent a Spot Unauthorized Lodgings in a Bayard Street Tenement. Via Preus Museum
Home of an Italian Ragpicker. Via Preus Museum
Bandit`s Roost 59 1/2 Mullbery Street. Via Preus Museum
One of four Pedlars Who Slept in the Celler of 11 Ludlow Street Rear. Via Preus Museum
Elizabeth Street Police Station-Womans Lodgers. Via Preus Museum
A Class in the Condemned Essex Market School, With the Gas Burning by Day. Via Preus Museum
Bohemian Cigarmakers at work in their Tenement. Via Preus Museum
Shoemaker Working in a house in the Yard of Broome Street, Which the Landlord Built When the Sanitary Police Put him out of the Basement. Clatterpol Sticks Up Through his House. Rent $ 12 a Month. Via Preus Museum
In Poverty Gap, an English Coal-Heaver`s Home. Via Preus Museum