Jacob Riis

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Jacob Riis was a pioneering Danish-American social reformer, journalist, and photographer whose stark images and writings about New York City’s tenement slums helped spur early 20th-century urban and housing reforms.

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Jacob Riis canonical 4
Jacob August Riis 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf author
journalist
lecturer
muckraker
person
photographer
social reformer
burialPlace Riverside Cemetery, Barre, Massachusetts, United States
causeOfDeath heart disease
countryOfCitizenship Denmark
United States of America
dateOfBirth 1849-05-03
dateOfDeath 1914-05-26
employer New York Evening Sun
New-York Tribune
surface form: New York Tribune
ethnicOrigin Danish
familyName Riis
fieldOfWork housing reform
journalism
social reform
urban reform
fullName Jacob Riis self-linksurface differs
surface form: Jacob August Riis
genre photojournalism
social documentary
givenName Jacob
immigratedTo United States of America
influenced Theodore Roosevelt
influencedBy Christian social ethics
knownFor exposing living conditions in New York City tenements
influencing Progressive Era housing legislation
pioneering flash photography in low-light urban environments
languageSpoken Danish
English
movement Progressive Era reform movement
notableWork How the Other Half Lives
The Battle with the Slum
The Children of the Poor
occupation author
journalist
photographer
police reporter
social reformer
placeOfBirth Ribe
surface form: Ribe, Denmark
placeOfDeath Barre, Massachusetts
surface form: Barre, Massachusetts, United States
religion Lutheranism
residence New York City
Ribe
surface form: Ribe, Denmark
spouse Elisabeth Gortz
Mary Phillips
yearOfImmigration 1870

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Dorothea Lange influencedBy Jacob Riis
Jacob Riis Park namedAfter Jacob Riis
Jacob Riis fullName Jacob Riis self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Jacob August Riis
Riis Park namedAfter Jacob Riis