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Jacob Riis
Jacob August Riis was a Danish-American social reformer, "muck-raking" journalist, and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in the United States of America at the turn of the twentieth century. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subje…
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culture · American photographer, journalist and activist (1849–1914) · photographer · writer · journalist · photojournalist · biographer · sociologist · also Jacob Riis, Jacob A. Riis, Jacob August Riis, Jacob August Riss, Riis
Born 3 May 1849 · Died 26 May 1914 · Q379211
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2008· 1 entry
Swienty wrote, "Riis was quite impatient with most of his fellow immigrants; he was quick to judge and condemn those who failed to assimilate, and he did not refrain from expressing his contempt
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1929· 1 entry
By the 21st Danish National Committee of Chicago
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1914· 1 entry
Died 1914-05-26.
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1907· 1 entry
And with his new wife, Mary Phillips, relocated to a farm in Barre, Massachusetts
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1906· 1 entry
Riis received a letter from a family member in Denmark, with a postage stamp and Christmas seal affixed to it, informing him of the great success Christmas seals were experiencing in Denmark in raising funds to fight tub
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1905· 1 entry
Jacob Riis's wife Elisabeth became ill and died
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1901· 1 entry
Riis wrote his autobiography, The Making of an American
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1897· 2 entries
But went all the same, together with Lincoln Steffens
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His photojournalism of Mulberry Street caused New York officials to transform the slum's "foul core" of Mulberry Bend into Mulberry Park
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1895· 1 entry
When Roosevelt was appointed as president of the Board of Commissioners of the New York City Police Department
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1870· 2 entries
That France had declared war on Germany, he expected that Denmark would join France to avenge the Prussian seizure of Schleswig, and determined to fight for France
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When he was 21 years old, seeking employment as a carpenter
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1868· 1 entry
Riis returned to Ribe at age 19
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1849· 2 entries
In Ribe, Denmark, Jacob Riis was the third of 15 children (one of whom, an orphaned niece, was fostered) of Niels Edward Riis, a schoolteacher and writer for the local Ribe newspaper, and Carolina Riis (née Bendsine Lund
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Born 1849-05-03.
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