Exposing Hidden Worlds: How Jacob Riis' Photos Became Tools for Social Reform by Michael Burgan

Exposing Hidden Worlds: How Jacob Riis' Photos Became Tools for Social Reform

Captured History

Michael Burgan

64 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction childrens history emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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President Theodore Roosevelt called Jacob Riis "the best American I ever knew." The pioneering photojournalist, an immigrant from Denmark, drew attention to the poverty and evils of slum life in the late 1800s. Riis won national acclaim when his p...

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