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Riis, Jacob August

Born: 1849 AD
Died: 1914 AD, at 65 years of age.

Nationality: Unknown
Categories: Photographers, Reporters

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US (Danish-born) journalist and reformer

 

wrote "How the Other Half Lives" 1890

 

confidant of Theodore Roosevelt






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Page last updated: 2:02pm, 25th Jul '06

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