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Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was a Danish-American journalist, photographer, and social reformer who emigrated to New York in 1870 and knew poverty firsthand. Working as a police reporter, he used the new technology of flash photography to expose slum conditions and became a driving force of Progressive Era reform.

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