How The Other Half Lives Mr. Smith- Rm. A105 U.S.

History
Today you will be looking at photos from the book How the Other Half Lives written by Jacob Riis. This was a book that was the first of its kind. Riis work was spent on showing the people of New York and throughout the country the life that people were living in the worst areas of the city. As cities grew, they built tenement buildings for housing the vast amounts of people, often immigrants that worked within the cities. These housing units were the first projects of the United States. Tenement- multistory building divided into apartments to house as many families as possible. (*The first example of lower income housing not, government funded.) Directions You will use the website http://www.authentichistory.com/1898-1913/2-progressivism/2-riis/index.html as a resource to complete the Photo Analysis Worksheet(s). Included in this packet are the 5 Photo Analysis Worksheets that you will need to complete this assignment. There are 8 pictures that you can observe, analyze and interpret. I want you to select 5 of those pictures to photo analyze. In addition to the photo analysis, there are two charts I would like you to look at and analyze as well. Pictures Select 5 of the 8 pictures to photo analyze. To look at a larger image of the picture, click on the picture you are looking at. Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3 Picture 4 Picture 5 Picture 6 Picture 7 Picture 8 Ch. 1 Ch. 2 Ch. 4 Ch. 4 Ch. 8 Ch. 7 Ch. 8 Ch. 14 Room in a tenement house Street Cleaning Tenement House-Yard Old Rear Tenement in Roosevelt Square The Bend Comparison The Tramp 7 Cent Lodging House Birds Eye View of East Side Tenement

Death Rate Survey

Ch. 6

a. Does the Bend seem like a healthy place to live based on the photos provided and the data in the chart?

b. Read the paragraph above the chart, was the infant mortality rate considered to be high or low?

c. What was believed to be the reason for the infant mortality rate?

Rent Discrimination Ch. 13 a. Did white and black residents pay the same amount of rent for the same type of housing?

b. What was the difference per month? How much money would that be for the entire year?

c. Was there any way that black families could fight against this type of discrimination?

After finishing the photo analysis, read Chapter 15 The Problem of the Children