TY  - GEN
AU  - Riis,Jacob A.
TI  - Jacob A. Riis papers,
KW  - Adler, Felix,
KW  - Carnegie, Andrew,
KW  - Lowell, Josephine Shaw,
KW  - Moore, Martha Riis
KW  - Owre, J. Riis
KW  - Riis, Elisabeth D. Nielson,
KW  - Riis, Kate
KW  - Riis, John
KW  - Riis, Mary Phillips
KW  - Riis, Roger William,
KW  - Roosevelt, Theodore,
KW  - Saint-Gaudens, Augustus,
KW  - Riis family.
KW  - Council of Confederated Good Government Clubs
KW  - Small Parks Committee (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - Civic improvement
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Humanitarianism
KW  - Journalism
KW  - Reformers
KW  - Slums
KW  - Social history
KW  - Social problems
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Authors
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Journalists
KW  - Philanthropists
N1  - Open to research; Microfilm edition available for a portion of the collection; no. 16,815; Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division; Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress Photoduplication Service; 1976
N2  - Correspondence, speeches, lectures, articles, appointment books, financial records, radio scripts, family papers, genealogical material, deeds, indentures, clippings, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Riis's work as a journalist documenting the plight of urban slum dwellers in New York, N.Y., culminating in his book, How the Other Half Lives (1890).  Includes his reports for the Council of Confederated Good Government Clubs and the Small Parks Committee, New York, N.Y.  Family correspondents include his wives, Elisabeth D. Nielson Riis and Mary Phillips Riis; his daughter, Kate Riis; his sons, John Riis and Roger William Riis; his grandson, J. Riis Owre; and his granddaughter, Martha Riis Moore.  Other correspondents include Felix Adler, Andrew Carnegie, Josephine Shaw Lowell, Theodore Roosevelt, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010258
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010258.3
ER  -