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== =JACOB RIIS=

Born May 3, 1849 was a Danish American Social Reformer, muckraking journalist and a documentary photographer. He is best known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished of New York, with the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller he set up "model tenements" in New York. He died May, 26, 1914.