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jan 11, 1890 - Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives (1890)

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Danish imm Jacob A. Riis - reporter for New York Sun, shocked middle-class Amer (1890) w/ How the Other Half Lives; Exposed bad conditions of NY slums, influenced future NYC police commissioner TR

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jan 11, 1890
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~ 135 years ago