Jacob Riis

There were many muckrakers that spoke out against corruption and other things. Many of them caught a lot of peoples attention. One photographer, Jacob Riis, formed a book of pictures that captured the life that the poor exist in. He showed what corruption was causing throughout the nation. He really captured tenement life especially well. His book was called, How the Other Half Lives. The pictures inside it were truly shocking. Below are few pictures from the book.

This is a picture of Children sleeping on the streets in New York. 

These children are seen huddling for warmth by a window.

The two pictures above showed life for people in tenements. Tenements are buildings divided into many tiny apartments. As you can see there were many people cramped inside these tenements that were much too small for them.

Jacob Riis named these horrible houses, the Dens of Death. 

Jacob Riis called this picture Bandits Roost.

People actually had to live in these sheds.

So as you can see the life some people had to live was really horrible. This is what corruption was causing for people, the majority of people.  Jacob Riis main goal was so that tenement life and life in the slums would be reformed.