Jacob Riis Photo
Riis was a Danish American photojournalist who, as a writer for the New York Tribune assigned to the lower East Side of New York City, exposed the slum’s conditions,. Source: "Jacob August Riis." Encyclopedia of World Biography. Vol. 13. 2nd. ed. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 169-170. 23 vols. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Thomson Gale.