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What did Jacob Riis do

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Jacob Riis, in full Jacob August Riis, (born May 3, 1849, Denmark—died May 26, 1914, Barre, Massachusetts, U.S.), American newspaper reporter, social reformer, and photographer who, with his book How the Other Half Lives (1890), shocked the conscience of his readers with factual descriptions of slum conditions in New York City.

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