print email comment close "How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York" URL: http://www.bartleby.com/208/ Description: The full text, complete with original illustrations, of the original, 1890 edition of Jacob A. Riis's work detailing "the appalling living conditions in the Lower East Side of turn-of-the-century New York City." From Bartleby.com. Publisher: Bartleby.com Library of Congress Subject Headings: Full-text Poor -- New York (State) -- New York Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York LII Database Information: Record 11656 created by Dana Lubow on 05/06/2001 Last modification on 02/21/2009 Published: 05/06/2001   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/11656