Jacob Riis – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Jacob Riis in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Jacob Riis
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Labeled with Jacob Riis's name, this glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, though the record notes that the title rests on unverified caption data supplied by the Bain News Service. Riis, a Danish-born journalist who worked in New York, became widely known through his 1890 book *How the Other Half Lives*, which used flash photographs to expose conditions in the city's tenements. The Bain agency, also based in New York, distributed news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date for this negative, so when and why it was made remains uncertain.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,223 × 5,792 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-6929 |
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