Hi,

"How the other half lives" is available in Penguin Classics:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140436790/qid=1020468116/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-2586244-0875358

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 Bob  

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Friday, May 03, 2002, 2:31:11 PM, you wrote:

> From "The Writer's Almanac," by MPR:

> It's the birthday of journalist and reformer Jacob Riis, born in Ribe,
> Denmark (1849). He came to America looking for work as a carpenter,
> then started working as a reporter. Within a few years, he bought the
> struggling South Brooklyn News and transformed it into a profitable
> reform journal. At the New York Tribune, he exposed the terrible
> conditions of the slums. He was one of the first photojournalists, taking
> pictures of slum life, which he published in How the Other Half Lives  (1890).
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