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

Jacob August Riis, Museum of the City of New York — 1971

This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and a monument of early American photography. Captured on film by photographer, journalist, and reformer Jacob Riis, more than 100 grim scenes reveal man's struggle to survive.