Jacob Riis Research Paper
Sydney Rhoads
History 12: T, Th 8-9:15
1/30/17
The impacting photos that Jacob had taken in the late 19th century, in the city of New York had the chance to show the middle-class the effect it could have on readers, and them wanting to help immigrants. “How many Americans understood what the immigrant life was like?” In addition, the middle class does not really care for the immigrants up until the point where it affects the middle class and that includes money and certain rights. “Jacob Riis had taken hundreds of photos of tenements, his work had been first published in eighteen eighty-nine and later became a book named, How the other half lives.” Riis wanted to expose his pictures of the immigrants living conditions to upper …show more content…
The living conditions portrayed in photograph number three and photograph number six. Jacob was an immigrant and had struggled in the first few years of the U.S. According, to an article, “Pioneering social Reformer Jacob Riis Revealed how the other half lives in America, by Jimmy Stamp,” he had many jobs because he could not find a job where he stayed at for a while, he worked as farmhand, ironworker, brick-layer, carpenter, and sales man, and experienced harsh times to where it would inspire Danish immigrant to dedicate himself to improving the living conditions for the city’s lower class.” In one of the photographs that Riis had taken, photograph number three, the living conditions was horrible. The room was very small and it seems like in photograph number three that the immigrants were living in an attic because there had been bricks everywhere in the room and it was dirty. Another photograph that Jacob had taken was photograph number six which had also showed the living conditions were bad. The photograph had writing on the fence, which had looked ghetto, there was trash everywhere, it was messy and it seems crowded because of how the houses were close together, which means that there was hardly any room in where the immigrants were living. With readers, just seeing these two photos would want to help immigrants now live in better situations and hurt the middle class by a possibility of raising taxes for them so that the immigrants can live
History 12: T, Th 8-9:15
1/30/17
The impacting photos that Jacob had taken in the late 19th century, in the city of New York had the chance to show the middle-class the effect it could have on readers, and them wanting to help immigrants. “How many Americans understood what the immigrant life was like?” In addition, the middle class does not really care for the immigrants up until the point where it affects the middle class and that includes money and certain rights. “Jacob Riis had taken hundreds of photos of tenements, his work had been first published in eighteen eighty-nine and later became a book named, How the other half lives.” Riis wanted to expose his pictures of the immigrants living conditions to upper …show more content…
The living conditions portrayed in photograph number three and photograph number six. Jacob was an immigrant and had struggled in the first few years of the U.S. According, to an article, “Pioneering social Reformer Jacob Riis Revealed how the other half lives in America, by Jimmy Stamp,” he had many jobs because he could not find a job where he stayed at for a while, he worked as farmhand, ironworker, brick-layer, carpenter, and sales man, and experienced harsh times to where it would inspire Danish immigrant to dedicate himself to improving the living conditions for the city’s lower class.” In one of the photographs that Riis had taken, photograph number three, the living conditions was horrible. The room was very small and it seems like in photograph number three that the immigrants were living in an attic because there had been bricks everywhere in the room and it was dirty. Another photograph that Jacob had taken was photograph number six which had also showed the living conditions were bad. The photograph had writing on the fence, which had looked ghetto, there was trash everywhere, it was messy and it seems crowded because of how the houses were close together, which means that there was hardly any room in where the immigrants were living. With readers, just seeing these two photos would want to help immigrants now live in better situations and hurt the middle class by a possibility of raising taxes for them so that the immigrants can live