How the Other Half Lives Studies Among the Tenements of New York

"How the Other Half Lives" is a chronicle of the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th century had to endure. Riis, who as an immigrant had lived among these conditions himself, exposed the horrible conditions while working as a reporter for the "New York Tribune." This book when first published in 1901 shed a much-needed light on the conditions of the poor. Presented here is the original 1901 edition with the original illustrations presented in that volume.