(p. 6) Riis also thought that the "other half" justly punished the community because the community gave them no other choice. These poorer people did not have the same resources and education opportunity as most of the rest of the classes in America, which many tenemen... ... middle ...
Before publishing his pioneering book How the Other Half Lives —a photojournalistic investigation into the poverty of New York’s tenement houses, home to three quarters of the city’s population—Jacob Riis (1849-1914) spent his first years in the Unit
later served as clerk-ranger from 1909 to 1918, during the tenures of four of the first five supervisors: John Riis, Henry A. Bergh, J.W. Humphrey and Samuel B. Locke. The creation of the National Forest Service resounds to the credit of President Theodore Roosevelt. The American Forestr...