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Primary source: Jacob Riis, "Five Cents a Spot, Unauthorized Lodgings in a Bayard Street Tenement, c. 1890," photograph.
Caption: Jacob Riis, a reporter for the New York Sun newspaper, helped raise awareness about the conditions of the urban poor with his 1890 publication, How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York. This book would later influence Theodore Roosevelt.
Jacob Riis, "Five Cents a Spot, Unauthorized Lodgings in a Bayard Street Tenement, c. 1890," photograph, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York. New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1890.
Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York.
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