Academy for American Democracy: Industrialization in the Gilded Age

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How The Other Half Lives By Jacob Riis

In 1890, Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives:Studies Among the Tenements of New York was published. This piece of photojournalism depicted life in the slums of New York City.

The people shown in these images were most likely factory workers who were paid low wages.


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