in Ribe, Denmark, Jacob Riis was the third of the 15 children (one of whom, an orphaned niece, was fostered) of Niels Edward Riis, a schoolteacher and... 59 KB (7,607 words) - 16:52, 3 May 2024 |
How the Other Half Lives (section Jacob Riis) Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s... 17 KB (2,270 words) - 19:36, 28 March 2024 |
American Realism (section Jacob Riis) Margaret Deland, Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce, and J. D. Salinger. Jacob August Riis (1849–1914), a Danish-American muckraker journalist, photographer... 26 KB (3,249 words) - 05:38, 24 April 2024 |
Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a Spot (category Photographs by Jacob Riis) Danish-American photographer Jacob Riis, in 1889. It was included in his photographic book How the Other Half Lives, published in 1890. Riis documented the poor... 5 KB (518 words) - 17:10, 4 January 2024 |
Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street (category Photographs by Jacob Riis) Danish-American photojournalist and social reformer Jacob Riis in 1888. The photograph was possibly not taken by Riis but instead by one of his assistant photographers... 5 KB (521 words) - 16:23, 28 April 2024 |
Riis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Asbjørn 'Bear' Riis (born 1957), Danish professional wrestler Bendik Riis (1911–1988), Norwegian... 854 bytes (138 words) - 13:01, 11 July 2023 |
M. Paul Friedberg (section Jacob Riis Plaza) of Friedberg's most notable projects was the Jacob Riis Plaza, undertaken in the mid-1960s. The Jacob Riis Complex is a series of 14-story buildings along... 6 KB (686 words) - 17:58, 20 November 2023 |