Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New YorkLuc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city's slums; the teeming streets--scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape. |
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Photographed in the late 1880s by Richard Hoe Lawrence, one of Riis's under
studies Tenement cut a way from James McCabe's Lights and Shadows. Police
station lodgers, photographed by Jacob Riis, late 1880s East Side lodging house
of ...
Tenement cut a way from James McCabe's Lights and Shadows of We w York
Life, 1872. Note cellars, saloon, roof garden, catwalk, as well as the rich variety of
domestic dramas o A survey cited by Jacob Riis in the 1890s distinguished.
A survey cited by Jacob Riis in the 1890s distinguished between the respective
dangers of single tenements and double-deckers: the mortality rate for the First
Ward, for example, was 29.08 per thousand in the former case and 61.97 per ...
Riis cites further examples: a windowless back-building room at $6 a month; an
identical chamber with a hole knocked ... Many laws passed after 1890 are the
direct result of the campaign of Jacob Riis, through his journalism, books, and ...
Lures and Snares of Old New York Luc Sante. The new-law air shaft: a scene
shot by Riis in the 1890s that could just as easily have been taken yester day A
couple in their ten em ent home, evidently under the eaves, photographed by
Jacob ...
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Comentariu Utilizator - datrappert - LibraryThingIt took me much longer than it should have to finish this book, because I was constantly putting it down to look up people on Wikipedia or to track down referenced books on Project Gutenberg or ... Citiți recenzia completă
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Comentariu Utilizator - EricCostello - LibraryThingA generally good book, with a handful of flaws. Sante, in this volume, gives an oversight of what New York City was like from roughly the 1830s to the end of World War I, going through various aspects ... Citiți recenzia completă
Cuprins
xxv | |
Part 2 Sporting Life | ciii |
Part 3 The Arm | ccxxxix |
Part 4 The Invisible City | 107 |
Afterword | 363 |
A Note on Sources | 381 |
Notes | 391 |
Index | 403 |