How the Other Half Lives: With 100 Photographs from the Riis Collection
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Dover Publications, 2012.
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9780486129921

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Jacob A. Riis., & Jacob A. Riis|AUTHOR. (2012). How the Other Half Lives: With 100 Photographs from the Riis Collection . Dover Publications.

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Jacob A. Riis and Jacob A. Riis|AUTHOR. How the Other Half Lives: With 100 Photographs From the Riis Collection Dover Publications, 2012.

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