Jacob Riis: References & Edit History
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Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, ed. by Hasia R. Diner (2010), provides the text and images of Riis’s most-important book along with contextualizing historical documents, critical essays, and a chronology. Works on Riis include Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom, Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York (2007); Tom Buk-Swienty, The Other Half: The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America (2008; originally published in Danish, 2005); and Alexander Alland, Sr., Jacob A. Riis: Photographer & Citizen (1974, reprinted 1993).
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anniversary information added. | May 22, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Apr 29, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Art Story - Jacob Riis. | Feb 02, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Art in Context - Jacob Riis Discover the Life of the Documentary Photographer. | Sep 25, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Digital Commons at Illinois Wesleyan University - The Photographs of Jacob Riis: History in Relation to Truth (PDF). | Feb 13, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 11, 2025 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 04, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Photographers - Jacob Riis. | Apr 25, 2022 | ||
| Added information about his early life. | Dec 17, 2020 | ||
| Noted other books that Riis wrote. | Oct 07, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of Jacob A. Riis Museum. | Feb 07, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of Jacob A. Riis Museum. | Feb 07, 2019 | ||
| "Theodore Roosevelt, who would be elected U.S. president in 1900" changed to "Theodore Roosevelt, who would become U.S. president in 1901." | Feb 27, 2018 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jan 25, 2018 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jan 05, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: International Center of Photography - Biography of Jacob Riis. | Dec 26, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Social Welfare History Project - Biography of Jacob Riis. | Dec 26, 2016 | ||
| Changed article title from Jacob A. Riis to Jacob Riis. | Nov 03, 2016 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Mar 31, 2015 | ||
| Article revised. | Mar 31, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Biography of Jacob Riis. | Feb 19, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Park Service - Biography of Jacob Riis. | Feb 19, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Jacob Riis. | Jul 27, 2012 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 26, 2009 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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