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=**Jacob August Riis**=
 * (May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914) **


 * The third of fifteen children, Riis was influenced by his father who got him to read Charles Dicken's magazine All The Year 'Round, mainly to help him better his english. Riis emigrated to the United States when he was 21 in 1870. ** He helped with the implementation of "Model Tenements" in New York.

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