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Nicer apartment buildings in the slums
Nicer apartment buildings in the slums.
Jacob Riis
The old and creepy man lives in that spooky tenement on Hill St.
They were filled with waste water.
Jacob Riis used flash photography to expose the poverty and misery of Manhattan tenements in the Gilded Age. His groundbreaking book "How the Other Half Lives" highlighted the harsh living conditions and helped spark social reforms for better housing and living conditions for the poor.
Jacob Riis exposed the problem in tenements by taking pictures of the life in tenements. He showed these pictures to the government and to the people populated in areas which held a lot of tenements where many immigrants lived.
In "How the Other Half Lives," Jacob Riis described how sinks in tenements often ended up in poor condition due to overcrowding, lack of maintenance, and limited access to proper sanitation facilities. The sinks would "slink" due to neglect and poor living conditions, leading to unsanitary and unhygienic environments for residents.
From either the hallway or the stairs
Jacob Riis !
Jacob Riis !
He was talking about the water supply in the sinks of the tenements. It comes from Riis' book How the Other Half Lives.