Jacob Riis was born in Denmark on May 3, 1849. He moved to New York City in 1870 when he was 21 years old. In New York he had little to no money so he experienced what it was like to be poor and live in the slums. When he got his job with the New York Tribune he made it his mission to expose the lives of the poor to the common public using photography. He was the first person to use flash powder so he could capture the lives of poverty at night. He appeared in Subscriber's Magazine and then created a full-length version of his work called "How the Other Half Live". His work was very expository and inspiring to many people.
This picture just shows how cramped the conditions these people where living in were. A lot of people had turned a blind eye to this extreme poverty until Riis exposed them.
Again, just amazing at capturing the emotion of these people.
This just shows us how different the times were back then. Our schools are not like this anymore so it is really interesting to see what these young children experienced.
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