Artworks · Jacob August Riis

In a Dive

1895 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1957

6 3/8 × 4 3/4" (16.2 × 12 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Man Slept in This Cellar for Four Years

1890 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1957

6 3/16 × 4 3/4" (15.7 × 12.1 cm)

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Police Station Lodgers in Oak Street Station

1890 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1957

6 1/4 × 4 11/16" (15.8 × 11.9 cm)

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Women in Elizabeth Police Street Station

1890 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1957

6 3/8 × 4 15/16" (16.2 × 12.6 cm)

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"I Scrubs" - Katie, Who Keeps House on West Forty-Ninth Street

1890 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1954

4 × 5" (10.2 × 12.7 cm)

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Ancient Lodger, Eldridge Street Police Station

1890 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1958

4 3/4 × 6 5/16" (12.1 × 16 cm)

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Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a Spot

1889 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1957

6 3/16 × 4 3/4" (15.7 × 12 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Minding the Baby. Scene in Gotham Court

1889 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1957

6 3/8 × 4 15/16" (16.2 × 12.6 cm)

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The Bend

1889 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1957

6 1/4 × 4 3/4" (15.8 × 12 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Short Tail Gang. Corlears Hook under the Pier at the foot of Jackson Street

1889 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1957

6 3/16 × 4 3/4" (15.7 × 12.1 cm)

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Prayer Time in the Nursery, Five Points House of Industry

1889 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1957

6 1/4 × 4 3/4" (15.8 × 12.1 cm)

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In Poverty Gap, West 28th Street: An English Coal-heaver's Home

1889 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1957

6 5/16 × 4 3/4" (16 × 12.1 cm)

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Bohemian Cigarmakers at Work in Their Tenement

1889 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1957

6 3/16 × 4 13/16" (15.7 × 12.2 cm)

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Talmud School in a Hester Street Tenement

1888 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1957

6 5/16 × 4 3/4" (16 × 12.1 cm)

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Shoemaker, Broome Street

1888 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1957

6 1/16 × 4 3/4" (15.4 × 12 cm)

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Sabbath Eve in a Coal Celler, Ludlow Street

1888 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1957

6 5/16 × 4 3/4" (16 × 12.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Police Station Lodgers in Elizabeth Street Station

1888 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1957

6 1/4 × 4 3/4" (15.8 × 12.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

East Side Public School. A Class in the Condemned Essex Market School. Gas burning by day

1888 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1957

6 3/16 × 4 3/4" (15.7 × 12.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Street, their Playground

1888 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1957

6 1/2 × 4 3/4" (16.5 × 12 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Reporter Office at 301 Mulberry Street

1888 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1957

6 1/4 × 4 15/16" (15.8 × 12.5 cm)

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Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street

1888 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1958

19 3/16 × 15 1/2" (48.7 × 39.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Blind Beggar

1888 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1958

10 3/16 × 13 11/16" (25.9 × 34.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art