The Lower East Side of Jacob Riis

Jacob Riis
(1849 - 1914)
social reformer, muckraking journalist and photographer

Children sleeping in Mulberry Street, 1890

Cityscape, 1890

Hebrew Master Ready for Sabbath Eve in a Coal Cellar

The Bohemian Cigarmaker at Home

Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement: Five Cents a Spot

(New York, New York)