Nothing is left but to make the best of a bad bargain.
Jacob Riis, How The Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890)
Today’s text is an early work of photojournalism, rather than literature. A key text in American social history, How The Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York used the new technology of the magnesium flash powder to illuminate the living conditions of New York City’s poor and immigrant communities in the 1890s. Jacob Riis (1849-1914)…
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