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Muckraker Jacob Riis Discusses Raising Money For A Building: A Lady InStamford Advanced You $20,000 Bill Which To Buy The Building In Henry St. In Which Is Housed My Settlement

Muckraker Jacob Riis Discusses Raising Money For A Building: A Lady InStamford Advanced You $20,000 Bill Which To Buy The Building In Henry St. In Which Is Housed My Settlement by JACOB RIIS

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Title
Muckraker Jacob Riis Discusses Raising Money For A Building: A Lady InStamford Advanced You $20,000 Bill Which To Buy The Building In Henry St. In Which Is Housed My Settlement
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JACOB RIIS
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Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
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JACOB RIIS (1849-1914). A social reformer, Riis crusaded against urban slum conditions; he wrote the influential How The Other Half Lives. He was also close friends with Theodore Roosevelt.ALS. 1pg. 5 x 8. November 2, 1902. New York. An autograph letter signed Jacob A Riis on his personal letterhead: I go tomorrow to the west to be gone till Spring, so you see I am out. When I came your way in March I shall be workingspeed the day! A lady inStamford advanced you $20,000 bill which to buy the building in Henry St. in which is housed my settlement. If you could promise me a similar result, I might evenfrom the Pacific coast to you, for I need $31,000 more for the same purpose. The letter has mailing folds and light soiling.

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