Abstract
Abstract ‘I wrote’ cob A. Riis lamented in his autobiography, The Making of an American, ‘but it seemed to make no impression.’ Prose simply failed to move men. But late in 1887, the burning young social reformer submitted a report on 5-cent lodging house violations to the New York City Health Board, this time dramatically verifying his argument with photographs: ‘It did not make much of an impression’, Riis noted, ‘-these things rarely do, put into mere words - until my negatives, still dripping from the dark-room, came to reinforce them. From them there was no appeal.’1
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