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Call Number:

PH-00099

Collection Name:

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis Photography Collection

Creator:

Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)

No. of Items:

23 items

Span Dates:

1880s-1900s

Description:

The collection consists of twenty-three photographs by Jacob Riis (American, born Denmark, 1849-1914). Item-level information follows.

Photographs made from the original plates located in the Bettman Archive:
964:0034:0001 -- The Madonna of the slums, Jersey Street, Lower East Side, New York, 1890. Gelatin silver print;
964:0034:0002 -- Newsboys sleeping in the Mulberry Street Church Corner, ca. 1890. Gelatin silver print;
964:0034:0003 -- Sweatshop in Ludlow Street tenement, ca. 1889. Gelatin silver print;
964:0034:0004 -- Schoolroom in the Lower East Side, New York, ca. 1886. Gelatin silver print;
964:0034:0005 -- Schoolroom in the Lower East Side, New York: Teacher demonstrates on blackboard, ca. 1886. Gelatin silver print;
964:0034:0006 -- Shelter in a Bayard Street tenement for the homeless of the New York Slums: "5 cents a night," ca. 1890. Gelatin silver print;
964:0034:0007 -- Slum dweller on makeshift bed rigged up on two barrels in alcove of coal cellar, ca. 1886. Gelatin silver print;
964:0034:0008 -- Slum dweller in coal-cellar, 1891. Gelatin silver print;
964:0034:0009 -- A junkman's living quarters in the cellar of a New York tenement house, 1891. Gelatin silver print;
964:0034:0010 -- Emigrant in tenement room on Mulberry Bend, New York, ca. 1890. Gelatin silver print;
964:0034:0011 -- Bandit's Roost: New York City slum district near Mulberry Bend, 1888. Gelatin silver print;
964:0034:0012 -- Slum district: Jersey Street homes of Italian laborers, ca. 1890. Gelatin silver print;
964:0034:0013 -- Jewish emigrant established in a dismal coal cellar of the slum district gets ready for the Sabbath, ca. 1890. Gelatin silver print;
964:0034:0014 -- Bohemian Cigar Maker at work: "Seventeen hours a day, seven days a week, at thirteen cents an hour for three workers," ca. 1890. Gelatin silver print;
964:0034:0015 -- Old woman smoking in crowded tenement room does braiding work, ca. 1890. Gelatin silver print;
964:0034:0016 -- A child of the slums, circa 1890. Gelatin silver print;
964:0034:0017 -- Resting place of three "Street Arabs" in the New York tenement district, ca. 1890. Gelatin silver print;
964:0034:0018 -- Inside a clothesmakers shop (sweatshop), late 1880s. Gelatin silver print;
964:0034:0019 -- Two Girls on Stairs of Doorstep Holding Large Loaves of Bread, Lower East Side, New York City, circa 1890. Gelatin silver print;

Enlargements made from the original negatives located in the Museum of the City of New York:
964:0662:0001 -- Bandits Roost, Mulberry Street, New York, 1888. Gelatin silver print;
964:0662:0002 -- Tailor's "sweatshop", New York, 1889. Gelatin silver print;
964:0662:0003 -- Night Shelter for the Homeless Bayard Street New York, 1891. Gelatin silver print;
964:0662:0004 -- Home of an Italian rag picker, 1888. Gelatin silver print.

Accession No(s):

964:0034:0001-0019; 964:0662:0001-0004

Location(s):

Riis, J.A., Box (964:0034:0001-0019; 964:0662:0001-0004)
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Item(s):

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	The Madonna of the Slums
Date	circa 1890, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	23.7 x 19.4 cm; 9 3/10 x 7 3/5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0034:0001

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	Newsboys sleeping in the Mulberry Street Church Corner
Date	circa 1890, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	19 x 23.7 cm; 7 1/2 x 9 3/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0034:0002

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	[Inside a sweatshop (cheap tailoring in the home)]
Date	circa 1886, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	17 x 20.6 cm; 6 7/10 x 8 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0034:0003

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	Schoolroom in the Lower East Side N.Y.
Date	circa 1886, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	19.3 x 23.6 cm; 7 3/5 x 9 3/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0034:0004

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	Schoolroom in the Lower East Side, New York: Teacher demonstrates on blackboard.
Date	circa 1889, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	19.3 x 23.6 cm; 7 3/5 x 9 3/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0034:0005

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	Shelter in a Bayard Street tenement for the homeless of the N.Y. slums: "5 cents a night."
Date	circa 1889, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	19.2 x 23.7 cm; 7 3/5 x 9 3/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0034:0006

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	Slum dweller on makeshift bed regged up on two barrels in alcove ofcoal cellar.
Date	circa 1886, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	19.1 x 23.7 cm; 7 1/2 x 9 3/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0034:0007

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	[Slum dweller in coal-cellar]
Date	circa 1886, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	25.6 x 33.2 cm; 10 1/10 x 13 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0034:0008

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	[A junkman's living quarters in the cellar of a N.Y. tenement house]
Date	1891, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	19.3 x 23.7 cm; 7 3/5 x 9 3/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0034:0009

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	Emigrant in tenement room on Mulberry Bend, New York.
Date	circa 1890, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	23.6 x 19 cm; 9 3/10 x 7 1/2 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0034:0010

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	[Bandit's Roost: New York City slum district near Mulberry Bend]
Date	circa 1888, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	19.3 x 23.7 cm; 7 3/5 x 9 3/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0034:0011

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	Slum district: Jersey Street homes of Italian laborers.
Date	circa 1890, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	19.2 x 23.6 cm; 7 3/5 x 9 3/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0034:0012

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	Jewish emigrant established in a dismal coal cellar of the slum district gets ready for the Sabbath.
Date	circa 1890, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	19.2 x 23.8 cm; 7 3/5 x 9 2/5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0034:0013

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	Bohemian Cigar Maker at work.
Date	circa 1890, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	19.4 x 23.5 cm; 7 3/5 x 9 3/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0034:0014

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	Old woman smoking in crowded tenement room does braiding work.
Date	circa 1890, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	18.8 x 23.7 cm; 7 2/5 x 9 3/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0034:0015

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	A child of the slums.
Date	circa 1890, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	18.9 x 24.2 cm; 7 2/5 x 9 1/2 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0034:0016

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	Resting place of three "Street Arabs" in the n.y. tenement district ofthe 1890's.
Date	circa 1890, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	19.3 x 23.7 cm; 7 3/5 x 9 3/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0034:0017

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	Inside a clothesmakers shop (sweatshop).
Date	circa 1890, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	19.1 x 23.6 cm; 7 1/2 x 9 3/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0034:0018

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	[Two girls on doorsteps holding large loaves of bread]
Date	circa 1890, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	25.6 x 32.9 cm; 10 1/10 x 13 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0034:0019

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	[Bandits Roost, Mulberry Street]
Date	circa 1888, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	28.7 x 24 cm; 11 3/10 x 9 2/5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0662:0001

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	[Tailor's "sweatshop," New York]
Date	circa 1888, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	24.1 x 28.8 cm; 9 1/2 x 11 3/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0662:0002

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	[Night Shelter for the Homeless Bayard St. N.Y.]
Date	1891, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	23.8 x 28.7 cm; 9 2/5 x 11 3/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0662:0003

Artist/Maker	Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849 - 1914)
Title	[Home of an Italian rag picker, 1888]
Date	1888, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	24 x 29 cm; 9 2/5 x 11 2/5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0662:0004

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Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis Collection: A letter from Riis to Rideing, dated 17 December 1911, is located in the Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis Collection (MS-03541).