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HUMAmerDream.JacobRiis.pptxJacob Riis – investigative photographer, 1888
Riis’s pictures taken in NYC’s Five Points horrify the public
Children “Sleeping Rough”
Children Working
Ragged Boys
Ragged Dick’s environs
What would YOU do?
As a result of Jacob Riis’s fearless work, those citizens interested in addressing fast-growing urban poverty and homelessness began a conversation. What should be done to save these children and to save the city? Orphanages? Sanitation? Compulsory schooling? Child labor laws? Housing standards?
