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Jacob Riis’s Handwritten Reminder Of New York City’s Grim Past
Emma Lazarus’s poem “The New Colossus,” enshrined on a bronze plaque inside the Statue of Liberty, includes these famous lines: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” This poem was first published in 1883; seven years later, Jacob August Riis published his book How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. Shown here is a page of the manuscript draft of Riis’s polemical book (now on view in the New York City section of the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures).
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