Table of Contents
Introduction vii
A Note on the Text xv
List of Illustrations xvii
The Text of How the Other Half Lives 1
Contexts 167
Map: Lower Manhattan, Late 1800s 168
Map: The Five Points in the 1800s 169
About Riis-In his Own Words 171
From the Making of an American Jacob A. Riis 171
Riis's Contemporaries Observe the "Other Half" 193
From The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work among Them Charles Loring Brace 193
Tenement- house Morality J. O. S. Huntington 203
From the Poor in Great Cities William T. Elsing 209
Nurseries of Crime Thomas Byrnes 226
From the Housing of the Poor Marcus T. Reynolds 232
From A Daughter of the Tenements Edward W. Townsend 241
From Impressions and Experiences William Dean Howells 248
From First Report of the Tenement House Department of the City of New York, 1902-03 255
Tenement House Reform: Its Practical Results in the "Battle Row" District, New York Francis R. Cope Jr. 274
From The Leaven in a Great City Lillian W. Betts 291
Proposals Affecting Immigration John J. D. Trenor 300
From the Bitter Cry of the Children John Spargo 310
Neighbors Anonymous 316
From the House on Henry Street Lillian D. Wald 317
Contemporary Evaluations of Riis and How the Other Half Lives 324
Boston and "The Other Half" Warren P. Adams 324
The Making of Jacob A. Riis Joseph B. Gilder 327
From Comrades in Service Margaret E. Burton 329
From An Autobiography Theodore Roosevelt 337
From The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens Lincoln Steffens 345
Criticism 355
From Jacob A. Riis: Police Reporter, Reformer, Useful Citizen Louise Ware 357
Jacob Riis Charles J. Lotz 362
From From the Depths: TheDiscovery of Poverty in the United States Robert H. Bremner 367
From The Progressives and the Slums: Tenement House Reform in New York City, 1890-1917 Roy Lubove 379
From Jacob A. Riis: Photographer and Citizen Alexander Alland Sr. 399
From Jacob A. Riis and the American City James B. Lane 440
From From Main Street to State Street: Town, City, and Community in American Park Dixon Goist 452
Jacob Riis and the Jews Richard Tuerk 463
From Silver Cities: Photographing American Urbanization, 1839-1939 Peter Bacon Hales 477
From Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in America, 1890-1950 Maren Stange 483
From Immigrant Mothers: Narratives of Race and Maternity, 1890-1925 Katrina Irving 490
From Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's Urban Poor, 1825-2000 Joel Schwartz 505
From Slumming: Morality and Space in the New York City-from "City Mysteries" to the Harlem Renaissance Robert M. Dowling 507
From "Unhuman Humanity": Bodies of the Urban Poor and the Collapse of Realist Legibility Joseph Entin 509
Newsboy Funerals: Tables of Sorrow and Solidarity in Urban America Vincent DiGirolamo 516
Street-Rates and Gutter-Snipes: Child Pickpockets and Street Culture in New York City, 1850-1900 Timothy J. Gilfoyle 532
A Chronology Jacob Riis 551
Selected Bibliography 553