Riis became a friend of President Theodore Roosevelt’s and an in-demand speaker ... The signature portrait of "Jacob Riis: Revealing 'How the Other Half Lives' " is this haunting look at a ...

Jacob Riis, who died 100 years ago this month ... a job that would would lead to fame and a friendship with police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, who called Riis "the best American I ever ...

However, the Jacob Riis Museum, with its extensive modern ... including New York’s mayors and even Theodore Roosevelt. The museum boasts copies of Riis’ first-edition publications, as well ...

Social reformer Jacob Riis was a parishioner, and New York State Governor Theodore Roosevelt attended Riis’ daughter Clara’s wedding to Dr. William Fiske on June 1, 1900. In 1932, New York City Parks ...

Theodore Roosevelt is known as many things ... SIMON: He walked a beat with Jacob Riis, the great muckraking journalist who wrote about New York's poor in the tenements. What did he learn on ...

On October 28, 1858, Theodore Roosevelt was born into one ... New York City Police Commissioner in 1895 he worked alongside Jacob Riis, the author and social reformer, to improve living conditions ...

Before Theodore Roosevelt became the nation’s 26th president ... from 1895 to 1897 and palled around with reformer Jacob A. Riis. During this time, Roosevelt enacted reforms to fix the police ...

Danish photographer Jacob Riis captured the inhumane conditions ... in the city and prompted then-Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt into action. In the 19th century, New York City was filled ...