Rare photographs of City Hall, Logan Square, Independence Hall, Betsy Ross House, other landmarks juxtaposed with contemporary views. Captures changing face of historic city. Introduction. Captions.
The Battle with the Slum by Jacob A. Riis A splendid sequel to the author's 1902 classic, How the Other Half Lives.
Classic work of reportage documents life of the urban poor at the turn of the century. Compelling real-life tales and rare photographs celebrate efforts to demolish breeding grounds of crime and improve conditions.
The Battle With the Slum
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Published three years after A Ten Year?s War, The Battle with the Slum is the sequel to Riis? How the Other Half Lives. This book is a collection of Riis?...
The Battle with the slum
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The Battle with the Slum
The Battle with the Slum
Classic work of reportage documents life of the urban poor at the turn of the century. Real-life tales and rare photographs celebrate efforts to demolish breeding grounds of crime and improve conditions in schools and tenements.
This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Reproduction of the original: The Battle with the Slum by Jacob A. Riis
They drag one another always farther down. The bad environment becomes the heredity of the next generation. Then, given the crowd, you have the slum ready-made. The battle with the slum began the day civilization recognized in it her enemy.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.