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How the Other Half Lives

Studies Among the Tenements of New York

by Jacob A. Riis, David Leviatin

1890·325 pages
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9780312574017

About this book

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").

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