A Layman's Sermon: Jacob A. Riis on How the Other Half Lives & Dies in NY

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Jacob A. Riis delivered his first lecture, "How the Other Half Lives and Dies in New York," on January 25, 1888, at the Society of Amateur Photographers of New York. Using an early form of projector known as a stereopticon to display images of the slum and its residents, Riis took his audience on a visual tour of the tenements. Terry Borton of the American Magic-Lantern Theater created this abridged version of the lecture for the Museum of the City of New York's "Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York's Other Half" exhibition. The lecture is based on a transcript of one that Riis delivered in Washington, D.C. in 1891.