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Jacob Riis: Reporter and Reformer (Oxford Portraits)
Jacob Riis Reporter and Reformer - Oxford Portraits
Author: Janet B. Pascal
Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was born in Denmark and emigrated to America at the age of 21. After several years of poverty, he found work as a police reporter, which took him into the worst of New York's ghettos and tenements. Appalled by the conditions he found there, he began to use the primitive new flash technology to photograph the dark places t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195145274
ISBN-10: 0195145275
Publication Date: 12/2/2005
Pages: 176
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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