![Item #3904 The Making of an American. [With two autograph letters inserted]. Jacob A. Riis](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3904_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1560462960)
The Making of an...
The autobiography of social reformer Jacob Riis, along with two letters from Riis to influential Ellis Island immigration doctor Victor Safford. First published in 1901, this is a 1902 printing. Riis’s autobiography begins with his youth in Denmark (including his initially one-sided bond with his beloved wife Elizabeth), and his.....