How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (Bedford Series in History and Culture)

Jacob Riis’s famed 1890 photo-text addressed the problems of immigration, technological innovation, industry, and urban life at the dawn of the twentieth century. American studies instructor and freelance photographer David Leviatin edited this edition to be as faithful to the original text as possible; all interior photos are uncropped reprints made from Riis’s original negatives, lantern slides, and prints.