This is a complete lesson about the one of the most important Muckrakers of the Gilded/Progressive era, Jacob Riis. In this lesson, students will participate in a PowerPoint lecture and discussion about Muckrakers and Jacob Riis, produce a photograph of a social issue they believe to be important, and discuss the social issues brought to light through the photography of their group and their peers. This lesson fits in perfectly with standards on the Gilded Age and The Progressive Era. This lesson isn't for the faint of heart, it will inevitably lead to some difficult yet important discussions about serious social issues as students make connections between the class material and their own personal experiences. Included in this lesson: Detailed project lesson plan Instructional Student Handout PowerPoint Presentation Sign-up Sheet Grading Rubric This lesson is aligned with the Common Core history standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.6 Evaluate authors’ differing points of view on the same historical event or issue by assessing the authors’ claims, reasoning, and evidence. California State Standards: 11.2.1 Know the effects of industrialization on living and working conditions, including the portrayal of working conditions and food safety in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. 11.2.2 Describe the changing landscape, including the growth of cities linked by industry and trade, and the development of cities divided according to race, ethnicity, and class.
Jacob Riis - American Image by Martin W. Sandler
A pioneer in the use of photography as an agent of social reform, Jacob Riis immigrated to the United States in 1870. While working as a police reporter for the New York Tribune, he did a series of…
One night Riis was bedding down in the Church Street Station Lodging-room when his gold locket keepsake was stolen and his dog clubbed to death.
Danish-born Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was a social reformer and photojournalist. He is best known for his 1890 book How the Other Half Lives, which brought public attention to New York's squalid housing, sweatshops, bars, and alleys. The City Museum holds the complete collection of images that Riis used in his writing and lecturing career, including photographs he made, commissioned, or acquired. These depict men, women, and children of many nationalities at home, work, and leisure. This collection contains vintage prints, glass-plate negatives, and lantern slides, as well as a set of recently produced prints from all of Riis's original negatives. The Mulberry Bend. Portrait of three girls who served as inspectors in the first Board of Election at the Beach Street Industrial School. An old woman with the plank she sleeps on at the Eldridge Street Station women's lodging room. "I Scrubs," Little Katie from the W. 52nd Street Industrial School (since moved to W. 53rd Street). Lodgers in a crowded Bayard Street tenement. Italian mother and her baby in Jersey Street. Men in a crowded in an "Black and Tan" dive bar. In sleeping quarters - Rivington Street Dump. A man atop a make-shift bed that consists of a plank across two barrels. Ludlow Street Hebrew making ready for Sabbath Eve in his coal cellar -- bread on his table. James M'Bride, one of the City's Pensioners, Father of the notorious Blanche Douglass. Three children curled up on a metal grate in a below-grade areaway. Prayer time in the nursery, Five Points House of Industry. In a Sweat Shop. Talmud School in a Hester Street Tenement. A woman holding a child, and men sitting in a rear yard of a Jersey Street tenement. Minding the Baby. Daytime foot traffic on Hester Street. Three Iroquois women working at a table at 511 Broome Street. Police Station Lodging Rooms, Church Street Station. Playground established in Poverty Gap in the "Alley Gang" preserves. A rear-lot house on Bleecker Street as seen from an adjacent excavation site. A woman with an infant seated at a table with a boy using writing tools. Laborers loading coffins into an open trench at the city burial ground on Hart's Island. An ash barrel on the sidewalk. Little Susie at her work. Children and a woman sit on an inclined cellar door. Newsboys cleaning their faces in a lodging house washroom. Young students salute the American flag at Mott Street Industrial School. Night school in the Seventh Avenue Lodging House - run by The Children's Aid Society. Under the dump at West 47th Street. Women sleeping on plank beds and the floor. A hallway at the condemned Essex Market School filled with students playing. Police Station Lodging Room 5. Midnight in the Leonard Street Station. Old Barney in Cat Alley. Cat Alley, when it was being torn down. Baby in slum tenement, dark stairs--it's playground. (via Museum of the City of New York)
Three young street children huddle together over a grate for warmth in an alleyway off Mulberry Street, Manhattan A young girl, holding a baby, sits in a doorway next to a garbage can. In an astonishingly atmospheric image taken in 1887, a group of men loiter in an alley known as 'Bandit's Roost' off Mulberry Street The sight of Italian immigrant families in New York on Jersey Street, living in shacks could be a scene from the developing world today A dilapidated wooden shack sits in an empty lot surrounded by tenement buildings in 1896. View of a back-lot house on Bleecker Street between Mercer and Greene Streets, almost toppling into an excavation site An Italian immigrant smokes a pipe in his makeshift home under the Rivington Street Dump A man sorts through trash under the 47th Street dump where he has made his home in around 1890 In a picture taken in 1890 a Bohemian family of four roll cigars at home in their tenement. Working from six in the morning till nine at night, they earn $3.75 for a thousand cigars, and between them could turn out three thousand cigars a week Mrs Benoit, a Native American widow, sews and beads while smoking a pipe in her Hudson Street apartment, New York City. A dishevelled shoeshine boy named Tommy takes a break from business A Native American, Mountain Eagle, and his family make handicrafts while one son plays violin in their tenement at 6 Beach Street in this image taken in 1895 A group of prisoners in striped suits and hats at The Lock-step Penitentiary on Blackwell's Island around 1890 A shrine in 'Bandits Roost', between Mulberry Street and Mulberry Bend, Little Italy, during the feast of Saint Rocco on the 23rd May, 1895. A real mulberry tree behind an early building, presumably the original dwelling in the area of Mulberry Bend One girl laughs with delight at having her photo taken as street children get the chance to read at a library at 48 Henry Street, New York City in 1900 Children play with barrels under the washing hung between tenements in Gotham Court, Cherry Street around 1890 Teachers show primary school children how to plant seeds in a plot of land in New York. This picture was taken in about 1900 New Yorkers enjoy the open space of the newly-planted Mulberry Bend Park in 1900 A group portrait of a football team posing in front of a fence at the West Side Playground, 68th Street, in 1895 A grocery shop and post office on Mulberry Street in Little Italy, around 1890 Warmly wrapped up children play in front of Dewitt Church, 280 Rivington Street, in 1890 Three girls jump rope while a group of children and adults form a semicircle around them on the rooftop playground of the Hebrew Institute Children swim under the supervision of adults at Public Bath #10, at the Hudson River Schoolboys play with a ball on the rooftop playground Children of Mott Street Industrial School, New York, salute the Stars and Stripes, and repeat the Oath of Allegiance Children holding American flags while riding tricycles and wagons on the rooftop garden of Ellis Island were the offspring of detained or waiting immigrants
One night Riis was bedding down in the Church Street Station Lodging-room when his gold locket keepsake was stolen and his dog clubbed to death.
Hard work, perseverance, tenacity. Those are the necessary qualities of success this quote by Danish-American social reformer, journalist, and photographer Jacob Riis is referring to: "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it, but all that had gone before." Keep this print handy to inspire and motivate yourself to stick with things even when they seem difficult or monotonous. This quality unframed print will make perfect decor for your home or office, available in your choice of black text on white, or white text on black. OPTIONS Here are all the options we offer for this image: Unframed print: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1074652967/motivational-quote-about-a-stonecutter Canvas wrap: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1684427238/canvas-wrap-featuring-motivational-quote ♥ FREE SHIPPING! ♥ Your money back if you don't love it! ♥ Nine popular sizes available, from a mini desk-size print to a large wall poster: 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, 11x14, 12x18, 16x20, 20x24, 20x30, or 24x36 ♥ All prints made on lustre photo paper ♥ Matte or frame not included, shown for demonstration only ♥ Carefully shipped inside a sturdy cardboard mailer ♥ Colors may vary slightly on your screen ♥ Aspect ratios vary between print sizes (3:2 ratio shown in most sample images)
Crusading photojournalist used his images to shine a light on New York squalor.
How innovations in photography helped this 19th century journalist improve life for many of his fellow immigrants
Jacob Riis retrató en “Cómo vive la otra mitad” la otra cara de Nueva York, ciudad tantas veces idealizada. El reportaje, realizado en 188...
Jacob Riis was an incredibly influential pioneer of photojournalism. All the photographers who snap shots of brutal realities today are carrying on his legacy.
How innovations in photography helped this 19th century journalist improve life for many of his fellow immigrants
One night Riis was bedding down in the Church Street Station Lodging-room when his gold locket keepsake was stolen and his dog clubbed to death.
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Danish-born Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was a social reformer and photojournalist. He is best known for his 1890 book How the Other Half Lives, which brought public attention to New York's squalid housing, sweatshops, bars, and alleys. The City Museum holds the complete collection of images that Riis used in his writing and lecturing career, including photographs he made, commissioned, or acquired. These depict men, women, and children of many nationalities at home, work, and leisure. This collection contains vintage prints, glass-plate negatives, and lantern slides, as well as a set of recently produced prints from all of Riis's original negatives. The Mulberry Bend. Portrait of three girls who served as inspectors in the first Board of Election at the Beach Street Industrial School. An old woman with the plank she sleeps on at the Eldridge Street Station women's lodging room. "I Scrubs," Little Katie from the W. 52nd Street Industrial School (since moved to W. 53rd Street). Lodgers in a crowded Bayard Street tenement. Italian mother and her baby in Jersey Street. Men in a crowded in an "Black and Tan" dive bar. In sleeping quarters - Rivington Street Dump. A man atop a make-shift bed that consists of a plank across two barrels. Ludlow Street Hebrew making ready for Sabbath Eve in his coal cellar -- bread on his table. James M'Bride, one of the City's Pensioners, Father of the notorious Blanche Douglass. Three children curled up on a metal grate in a below-grade areaway. Prayer time in the nursery, Five Points House of Industry. In a Sweat Shop. Talmud School in a Hester Street Tenement. A woman holding a child, and men sitting in a rear yard of a Jersey Street tenement. Minding the Baby. Daytime foot traffic on Hester Street. Three Iroquois women working at a table at 511 Broome Street. Police Station Lodging Rooms, Church Street Station. Playground established in Poverty Gap in the "Alley Gang" preserves. A rear-lot house on Bleecker Street as seen from an adjacent excavation site. A woman with an infant seated at a table with a boy using writing tools. Laborers loading coffins into an open trench at the city burial ground on Hart's Island. An ash barrel on the sidewalk. Little Susie at her work. Children and a woman sit on an inclined cellar door. Newsboys cleaning their faces in a lodging house washroom. Young students salute the American flag at Mott Street Industrial School. Night school in the Seventh Avenue Lodging House - run by The Children's Aid Society. Under the dump at West 47th Street. Women sleeping on plank beds and the floor. A hallway at the condemned Essex Market School filled with students playing. Police Station Lodging Room 5. Midnight in the Leonard Street Station. Old Barney in Cat Alley. Cat Alley, when it was being torn down. Baby in slum tenement, dark stairs--it's playground. (via Museum of the City of New York)
In commemoration of Jacob Riis's birthday on May 3rd, we're re-posting an earlier piece by Ted Mineau about Riis' life and work. Interested in reading more about the famous photojournalist? Check out all our past posts on Riis and his legacy. On May 3, 1849, Jacob August Riis was born in Denmark. At age 21, he immigrated
Geez, darn, babe - The strong Irish roots of New York slang words.
How innovations in photography helped this 19th century journalist improve life for many of his fellow immigrants
Jacob Riis c1903 Having done a major series of posts on the New York ‘Ashcan School’ (see indexes for individual listings), I thought as an addendum I would show some of the photographic work of Jacob Riis, a social reformer and photographer, who covered some of the same subject matter and is sometimes (erroneously) linked with The Ashcan School. He’s not strictly an artist, and he certainly wasn’t doing ‘art’ photography, but I think his photographs show a fascinating insight to the period. The Ashcan School was an artistic movement during the early twentieth century that is best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the city's poorer neighbourhoods. The most famous artists working in this style included Robert Henri, George Luks, William Glackens, John Sloan, and Everett Shinn, some of whom had met studying together under the renowned realist Thomas Anshutz at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and others of whom met in the newspaper offices of Philadelphia where they worked as illustrators. From Wikipedia: Jacob August Riis (1849 – 1914) was a Danish American social reformer, "muckraking” journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography. He endorsed the implementation of "model tenements” in New York with the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller. Additionally, as one of the most famous proponents of the newly practicable casual photography, he is considered one of the fathers of photography due to his very early adoption of flash in photography. While living in New York, Riis experienced poverty and became a police reporter writing about the quality of life in the slums. He attempted to alleviate the bad living conditions of poor people by exposing their living conditions to the middle and upper classes. This is part 1 of 2-part post on the works of Jacob Riis: 1888 An Ash-Barrel 1888 Bandit's Roost 1890 A "Black-and-Tan" dive bar before 1890 Hells Kitchen and Sebastopol 1890 Bohemian Cigar-makers at work in their tenement 1890 Police Station Lodgers. Eldridge Street Station, Women lodgers (only women lodgers in Eldridge St.) gelatin dry plate negative 1890c Police Station Lodging Room 7. Women's lodging room in West 47th Street Station gelatin dry plate negative 1890c "Knee-pants" at forty five cents a dozen - A Ludlow Street Sweater's Shop 1890c "Washing Up" in the Newsboys' lodging house 1890c A "Slide" in Hamilton Street. ( Shopkeepers hammered the cellar door full of nails to stop their using it as their grand slide ) gelatin dry plate negative 1890c A Scrub and her Bed - The Plank 1890c An Old Rear Tenement in Roosevelt Street gelatin dry plate negative 1890c Arab Boarding House albumen print 1890c Baby in slum tenement, dark stairs - it's playground gelatin dry plate negative 1890c Baxter Street Alley in Mulberry Bend 1890c Blackwell's Island. Prisoners breaking stone gelatin silver transparency 1890c Children from a Poor Neighbourhood in Coney Island Play gelatin silver transparency with hand colouring 1890c Children from a poor neighbourhood in Coney Island play 1890c Children in the Beach Street Industrial School gelatin dry plate negative 1890c Class of Melammedim learning English gelatin dry plate negative 1890c Coming home from Fresh Air Vacation gelatin dry plate negative 1890c Drilling the Gang, Mulberry Street gelatin dry plate negative 1890c East Side Public School gelatin dry plate negative 1890c East Side Public Schools. A class in the condemned Essex Market School, Gas burning by day gelatin silver print 1890c East Side Public Schools. Class without desks in the Essex Market School gelatin dry plate negative 1890c Going to Bed in the Five Points House of Industry 1890c Hester Street. The Street, the school children's only playground 1890c In sleeping quarters - Rivington Street Dump 1890c In the home of an Italian Ragpicker, Jersey Street 1890c Industrial School ( Children's Aid Society ) in West 52nd Street gelatin dry plate negative 1890c James M'Bride, one of the City's Pensioners, father of the notorious Blanche Douglass 1890c Juvenile Asylum Playground 1890c Lodgers in a crowded Bayard Street tenement - "Five cents a spot" 1890c Ludlow Street Hebrew making ready for Sabbath Eve in his coal cellar - bread on his table 1890c Men in a crowded in an "Black and Tan" dive bar gelatin silver transparency 1890c Men's lodging room in West 47th Street Station 1890c New York, Old house ( torn down ) in Bleeker Street, on a back lot between Mercer and Greene Streets gelatin dry plate negative 1890c One of four pedlars who slept in the cellar of 11 Ludlow Street rear 1890c Pell Street. Happy Jack's Canvas Palace - 7 cents lodging House, "No swearing or loud talking here after 9 o'clock" gelatin dry plate negative 1890c Police Station Lodgers 9. Women in the Elizabeth Street Station gelatin silver transparency 1890c Prayer time in the nursery, Five Points House of Industry gelatin silver transparency 1890c Reporters Office at 301 Mulberry Street gelatin dry plate negative 1890c Saluting the Flag in the Mott Street Industrial School gelatin dry plate negative
One night Riis was bedding down in the Church Street Station Lodging-room when his gold locket keepsake was stolen and his dog clubbed to death.
Journalist en fotograaf Jacob Riis emigreerde in 1870 vanuit Denemarken naar New York. Hij zou wereldberoemd worden met de foto’s die hij in de sloppenwijken van die stad maakte.
Jacob Riis was an incredibly influential pioneer of photojournalism. All the photographers who snap shots of brutal realities today are carrying on his legacy.
Jacob Riis, fotoperiodista que fotografió familias y niños durmiendo en las calles de Nueva York concienciar a la sociedad: El fotoperiodismo social.
How innovations in photography helped this 19th century journalist improve life for many of his fellow immigrants
another inspiring picture from mr. jacob riis who has newly brought great inspiration into my life with his turn of the century new york city (particularly 5 points area) photography.
Through photos and writings documenting poverty in New York City in the late 19th century, a Danish immigrant became a famous campaigner against slum housing. Two new books tell the story of Jacob Riis, a social reformer and natural showman.
One night Riis was bedding down in the Church Street Station Lodging-room when his gold locket keepsake was stolen and his dog clubbed to death.
Danish-born Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was a social reformer and photojournalist. He is best known for his 1890 book How the Other Half Lives, which brought public attention to New York's squalid housing, sweatshops, bars, and alleys. The City Museum holds the complete collection of images that Riis used in his writing and lecturing career, including photographs he made, commissioned, or acquired. These depict men, women, and children of many nationalities at home, work, and leisure. This collection contains vintage prints, glass-plate negatives, and lantern slides, as well as a set of recently produced prints from all of Riis's original negatives. The Mulberry Bend. Portrait of three girls who served as inspectors in the first Board of Election at the Beach Street Industrial School. An old woman with the plank she sleeps on at the Eldridge Street Station women's lodging room. "I Scrubs," Little Katie from the W. 52nd Street Industrial School (since moved to W. 53rd Street). Lodgers in a crowded Bayard Street tenement. Italian mother and her baby in Jersey Street. Men in a crowded in an "Black and Tan" dive bar. In sleeping quarters - Rivington Street Dump. A man atop a make-shift bed that consists of a plank across two barrels. Ludlow Street Hebrew making ready for Sabbath Eve in his coal cellar -- bread on his table. James M'Bride, one of the City's Pensioners, Father of the notorious Blanche Douglass. Three children curled up on a metal grate in a below-grade areaway. Prayer time in the nursery, Five Points House of Industry. In a Sweat Shop. Talmud School in a Hester Street Tenement. A woman holding a child, and men sitting in a rear yard of a Jersey Street tenement. Minding the Baby. Daytime foot traffic on Hester Street. Three Iroquois women working at a table at 511 Broome Street. Police Station Lodging Rooms, Church Street Station. Playground established in Poverty Gap in the "Alley Gang" preserves. A rear-lot house on Bleecker Street as seen from an adjacent excavation site. A woman with an infant seated at a table with a boy using writing tools. Laborers loading coffins into an open trench at the city burial ground on Hart's Island. An ash barrel on the sidewalk. Little Susie at her work. Children and a woman sit on an inclined cellar door. Newsboys cleaning their faces in a lodging house washroom. Young students salute the American flag at Mott Street Industrial School. Night school in the Seventh Avenue Lodging House - run by The Children's Aid Society. Under the dump at West 47th Street. Women sleeping on plank beds and the floor. A hallway at the condemned Essex Market School filled with students playing. Police Station Lodging Room 5. Midnight in the Leonard Street Station. Old Barney in Cat Alley. Cat Alley, when it was being torn down. Baby in slum tenement, dark stairs--it's playground. (via Museum of the City of New York)
How innovations in photography helped this 19th century journalist improve life for many of his fellow immigrants
A pioneer in the use of photography as an agent of social reform, Jacob Riis immigrated to the United States in 1870. While working as a police reporter for the New York Tribune, he did a series of…
