"Riis was a Danish immigrant [in] New York in the 1880s. As he was poor, he was forced to live in a slum. He got a steady job, and moved on, but he always felt compassion for the residents of poorer areas. He wrote this book to accompany a series of pictures he took. The book and the pictures sparked real change in the slums and led to government regulation and intervention"--Back cover.
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"Riis was a Danish immigrant [in] New York in the 1880s. As he was poor, he was forced to live in a slum. He got a steady job, and moved on, but he always felt compassion for the residents of poorer areas. He wrote this book to accompany a series of pictures he took. The book and the pictures sparked real change in the slums and led to government regulation and intervention"--Back cover.
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