NMLP P-035753 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

Jacob A. Riis · Charles Scribner's Sons (New York) · 1890

It contains more than forty-five illustrations, including eighteen halftone reproductions of Riis's own photographs alongside line drawings, and the title page credits 'illustrations chiefly from photographs taken by the author' -- among the earliest trade books to build its argument around halftone photographic reproduction

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035753 for "How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York" by Jacob A. Riis (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035753, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).