Cover of How the other half lives

How the other half lives

by Isabel Núñez, Jacob A. Riis, K. D. Weeks

1890 304 pages eng

A photographic collection exposing social conditions and daily life in the slums of late 19th century New York City. The title of the book is a reference to a sentence by French writer and philosopher François Rabelais, who famously wrote in his Pantagruel : "one half of the world does not know how…

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