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The Poor in great cities : their problems and what is being done to solve them

Title
The Poor in great cities : their problems and what is being done to solve them / by Robert A. Woods, W. T. Elsing [and others] illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Otto H. Backer [and others] ...
Publication
London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1896.

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Additional Authors
  • Woods, Robert Archey, 1865-1925.
  • Elsing, William Thaddeus.
  • Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914.
  • Parsons, Willard.
  • Wendell, Evert Jansen, 1860-1917.
  • Tucker, William Jewett, 1839-1926.
  • Kirkland, Joseph, 1830-1894.
  • Besant, Walter, 1836-1901.
  • Spearman, Edmund R.
  • Mario, Jessie White, 1832-1906.
  • Craig, Oscar.
  • Flagg, Ernest, 1857-1947.
Description
xxi, 400 pages including frontispiece, illustrations, plates.; 23 cm
Uniform Title
Scribner\u0027s magazine.
Subjects
Note
  • Papers contributed to Scribner\u0027s magazine during the years 1891-1893.
Reproduction (note)
  • Microfilm.
Contents
The social awakening in London, by R. A. Woods.--Life in New York tenement-houses as seen by a city missionary, by W. T. Elsing.--The children of the poor, by J. A. Riis.--The story of the fresh-air fund, by W. Parsons.--Boys\u0027 clubs in New York, by E. J. Wendell.--The work of the Andover house in Boston, by W. J. Tucker.--Among the poor of Chicago, by J. Kirkland.--A riverside parish, by Sir W. Besant.--A school for street Arabs, by E. R. Spearman.--The poor in Naples, by J. W. Mario.--Agencies for the prevention of pauperism, by O. Craig.--The New York tenement-house evil and its cure, by E. Flagg.--Index
OCLC
  • 14453057
  • ocm14453057
  • SCSB-2244133
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries