Jacob Riis: Revealing ‘How the Other Half Lives’

The life of Jacob Riis, a late-19th-early-20th century newspaper reporter and writer, whose stories and photographs of the squalid conditions in New York City’s tenements led to social reform, will be explored in a new Library of Congress exhibition.

“Jacob Riis: Revealing ‘How the Other Half Lives'” will open on Thursday, April 14 in the South Gallery on the second level of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 1st St. SE.

The exhibition is free and open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. It closes on Monday, Sept. 5, 2016.