Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Jacob Riis
Born: May 3, 1849
Died: May 26, 1914 (aged 65)
Bio: Jacob August Riis was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer.
Known for:
- How the Other Half Lives (1890)
- The Children of the Poor (1892)
- The Battle with the Slum (1902)
- Children of the Tenements (1903)
- Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen (1900)