Jacob Riis (KI) Zach North

Jacob Riis; Born May 3^rd, 1849 in Ribe, Denmark. He is the 3^rd child out of 15 kids, before he migrated to the United States; he worked as a carpenter at Copenhagen. He went thru many jobs, but in 1877 he became a police reporter, for the New York Tribune. He Took this opportunity to release his journalistic skills, to speak to the public with his words of wisdom, He mainly spoke about the how the poor where the victims, for as he has been below poverty sleeping in police station lodges. 1889, an account of city life His photographs illustrated by Scribner’s magazine this sparked up a lot of interest and about a year later, Jacob Riis publishes his book “How the other Half Lives”.