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Slums and housing, with special reference to New York City: history, conditions, policy, by James Ford, with the collaboration of Katherine Morrow and George N. Thompson, and an appendix, mainly architectural, by I. N. Phelps Stokes.

Book/Text

Westport, Conn., Negro Universities Press [1971, c1936]

1971-1936

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJLF 72-720 v. 2Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberJLF 72-720 v. 1Item locationOffsite

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El conventillo.

Book/Text

[Buenos Aires] Centro Editor de América Latina [1970]

1970

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJLC 76-126Item locationOffsite
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The tenement-house cigar law. Argument of the Hon. William M. Evarts, senior counsel for the New York cigar manufacturers, in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, against the constitutionality of said law. To which is appended, the briefs of counsel for the manufacturers.

Book/Text

[New York] N. Y. Cigar Manufacturers' Association, 1883.

1883

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberArents S 1378Item locationSchwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328
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Report.

Book/Text

[New York]

1903-1937

18 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTDN (New York (City). Tenement House Dept. Report) v. 10 1918/29Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberTDN (New York (City). Tenement House Dept. Report) v. 9 1917Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberTDN (New York (City). Tenement House Dept. Report) v. 7-8 (1912-16)Item locationOffsite
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The tenement : a way of life : a social, historical and architectural study of housing in Glasgow / [by] Frank Worsdall.

Book/Text

[Edinburgh] : W. and R. Chambers, 1979.

1979

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJLE 80-2397Item locationOffsite

Our brethren of the tenements and the ghetto, by M. J. McKenna.

Microform

New York, J. S. Ogilvie, [1899]

1899

0 resources

Tenants and trustees : a study of the poor in Madras / Paul D. Wiebe.

Book/Text

Delhi : Macmillan, c1981.

1981

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJLD 82-1599Item locationOffsite

Maintaining decent dwellings [microform] : a study of code enforcement in five new-law tenements.

Microform

New York, N.Y. : Women's City Club of New York, 1963.

1963

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The Glasgow denement : a way of life : a social, historical and architectural study / Frank Worsdall.

Book/Text

Glasgow : Drew, 1989.

1989-1979

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 90-1754Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Rapid rehabilitation of old-law tenements: an evaluation.

Book/Text

[New York], 1968.

1968

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJLE 88-994Item locationOffsite

A dream fulfilled : City and Suburban's York Avenue Estate / Andrew S. Dolkart and Sharon Z. Macosko.

Book/Text

[New York] : Coalition to Save City & Suburban Housing, c1988.

1988

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The peril and preservation of the home [microform] : being the William L. Bull lectures for the year 1903 / by Jacob A. Riis.

Microform

Philadelphia : G.W. Jacobs & Co., [1903]

1903

1 item

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FormatMicroformCall number*Z-5955Item locationOffsite

Up oor close : memories of domestic life in Glasgow tenements, 1910-1945 / Jean Faley.

Book/Text

Wendlebury, Oxon : White Cockade in association with Springburn Museum Trust, c1990.

1990

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFD 91-12815Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The failure of housing regulation.

Book/Text

New York City : New York City Housing Authority, 1936.

1936

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJAX E-473Item locationOffsite

Slums and housing, with special reference to New York City; history, conditions, policy, by James Ford, with the collaboration of Katherine Morrow and George N. Thompson, and an appendix, mainly architectural, by I. N. Phelps Stokes; prepared and published under the auspices of the Phelps-Stokes Fund.

Book/Text

Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1936.

1936

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 331.8-F (Ford, J. Slums and housing) v. 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Let in the sun.

Book/Text

New York, Macmillan [c1964]

1964

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 331.8-K (Klein, W. Let in the sun)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The tenements of Chicago, 1908-1935, by Edith Abbott, assisted by Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, and other associates in the School of Social Service Administration of the University of Chicago.

Book/Text

Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press [c1936]

1936

3 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTDN (Abbott, E. Tenements of Chicago)Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberTDN (Abbott, E. Tenements of Chicago)Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 331.8-A (Abbott, E. Tenements of Chicago)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Neglected neighbors; stories of life in the alleys, tenements and shanties of the national capital, by Charles Frederick Weller with one chapter by Eugenia Winston Weller.

Book/Text

Philadelphia, J. C. Winston Company [c1908]

1908

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 331.8-W (Weller, C. Neglected neighbors in the national capital)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FINDING AID AVAILABLE
Jacob Riis papers, 1871-1916, bulk (1900-1910).

Archival Mix

1871-1916

1 resource

Collection information

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Urban castles : tenement housing and landlord activism in New York City, 1901-1943 / by Jared N. Day.

Book/Text

1994.

1994

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIRGV 95-13084Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Richard Watson Gilder papers, 1855-1916.

Archival Mix

1855-1916

19 items

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FormatArchival MixCall number*ZL-330 r. 21: Letter book 21. (1908 Jul 23-1909 Nov 15)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328

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FormatArchival MixCall number*ZL-330 r. 20: Letter book 20. (1907 May 1-1908 Jul 20)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328

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Marc Eidlitz and Son records, 1895-1916.

Archival Mix

1895-1916

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How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York / introd. by Donald N. Bigelow.

Book/Text

New York : Sagamore Press, 1957.

1957

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberD-12 8450Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Report of the Tenement House Committee as authorized by chapter 479 of the laws of 1894. Transmitted to the Legislature January 17, 1895.

Book/Text

Albany, J.B. Lyon, state printer, 1895.

1895

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTDN (New York State. Tenement House Committee. Report. 1895)Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberIRH (New York State. Tenement House Committee. Report. 1895)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Urban blight and slums; economic and legal factors in their origin, reclamation, and prevention, by Mabel L. Walker, with special chapters by Henry Wright [and others]

Book/Text

Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1938.

1938

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSERA (Harvard city planning studies. [no.] 12)Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Beauty for ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with numerous illustrations.

Book/Text

New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1914.

1914

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSGG (Bacon, A. F. Beauty for ashes)Item locationOffsite

The battle with the slum, by Jacob A. Riis.

Book/Text

New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd., 1902.

1902

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSGG (Riis, J. A. Battle with the slum. 1902)Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Battle with the slum.

Book/Text

[s.l.] : Macmillan, 1912.

1912

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSGG (Riis, J. A. Battle with the slum. 1912)Item locationOffsite

A ten years' war; an account of the battle with the slum in New York, by Jacob A. Riis ...

Book/Text

Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900.

1900

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSGG (Riis, J. A. Ten years' war) 1900Item locationOffsite
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Report of the New York City Commission on Congestion of Population. Transmitted to the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen, February 28, 1911.

Book/Text

New York, Lecouver Press Company, 1911.

1911

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSGB (New York City. Congestion of Population Commission. Report)Item locationOffsite

Die Hygiene des Wohnungswesens, von H. Chr. Nussbaum ... Mit 20 Abbildungen.

Book/Text

Leipzig, G.J. Göschen, 1907.

1907

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSPP (Nussbaum, H. C. Hygiene des wohnungswesens)Item locationOffsite

Report of the Tenement House Commission of Louisville, under the ordinance of February 16, 1909. Text by Janet E. Kemp, investigator for the Commission, July 19, 1909.

Book/Text

[Louisville? 1909]

1909

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTDN (Louisville (Ky.). Tenement House Commission. Report)Item locationOffsite

Tenement conditions in Chicago; report by the Investigating Committee. Text by Robert Hunter.

Book/Text

Chicago, 1901.

1901

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTDN (City homes association, Chicago. Tenement conditions in Chicago)Item locationOffsite

Slum clearance and rehousing; the first report of the Council for Research on Housing Construction; illustrated by photographs and drawings.

Book/Text

London, Pub. for the Council by P.S. King & Son, ltd., 1934.

1934

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTDN (Council for Research on Housing Construction, London. Slum clearance and rehousing)Item locationOffsite

The tenement house problem, including the report of the New York state tenement house commission of 1900, by various writers, ed. by Robert W. De Forest and Lawrence Veiller.

Book/Text

New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd, 1903.

1903

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTDN (De Forest, R. W. Tenement house problem)Item locationOffsite
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The New York laws relating to apartment and tenement houses. With headings, paragraphs, marginal notes and full indexes. Edited by W.J. Fryer. Published by the Record and guide.

Book/Text

New York, C.W. Sweet, cop. 1903.

1903

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTDN (New York (State). New York laws relating to apartment and tenement houses)Item locationOffsite

The Tenement House Law and the Lodging House Law of the city of New York : with headings, paragraphs, marginal notes and full indexes / edited by William J. Fryer.

Book/Text

New York : The Record and Guide, c1902.

1902

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTDN (New York State. Tenement House Law and the Lodging House Law of the City of New York)Item locationOffsite

L'habitation à bon marché ... Préface de M. Jules Siegfried ...

Book/Text

Paris, A. Rousseau, 1906.

1906

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTDN (Ferrand, L. Habitation à bon marché)Item locationOffsite

The challenge of housing, by Langdon W. Post.

Book/Text

New York, Farrar & Rinehart [1938]

1938

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTDN (Post, L. W. Challenge of housing)Item locationOffsite