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Chronicles the life and career of newspaper photographer Jacob Riis, who was determined to change the fate of those living in the tenement houses of New York.

Looks at the career of reporter, photographer, and social reformer, Jacob Riis.

Looks at the career of reporter, photographer, and social reformer, Jacob Riis.

In 1889 New York, fourteen-year-old Italian immigrant Tony Petrosino, struggling with street gangs and torn between his family's Old World ways and his desire to further his education, gets help from a new friend, photographer and social reformer Jacob Riis.