How the Other Half Lives

Description:

A photographic collection exposing social conditions and daily life in the slums of late 19th century New York City. The title of the book is a reference to a sentence by French writer and philosopher François Rabelais, who famously wrote in his Pantagruel : "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives" ("la moitié du monde ne sait pas comment l'autre vit").

subjects: Museum of the City of New York,  Photograph collections,  Poor,  Poverty,  Social conditions,  Tenement houses,  Tenement-houses,  Propagation,  Woody plants,  Cuttings,  Poor, new york (state), new york,  New york (n.y.), social conditions,  Slums,  Pictorial works,  Slum,  Poor--new york (state)--new york,  Tenement houses--new york (state)--new york,  Hv4046.n6 r58 2011,  305.5/69097471,  Hd 475,  HISTORY,  Jewish

People: Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914)

Places: New York,  New York (N.Y.),  New York (State)