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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/Text | Call numberJLF 72-720 v. 2 | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJLF 72-720 v. 1 | Item locationOffsite |
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A calendar of photographic negatives of the New York City Tenement House Department, 1902-1914, compiled by Lilian Zwyns and Sylvia Szmuk.
Book/Text
[New York] 1971.
1971
0 resources
El conventillo.
Book/Text
[Buenos Aires] Centro Editor de América Latina [1970]
1970
1 item
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJLC 76-126 | Item locationOffsite |
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
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberArents S 1378 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328 |
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Report.
Book/Text
[New York]
1903-1937
18 items
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTDN (New York (City). Tenement House Dept. Report) v. 10 1918/29 | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTDN (New York (City). Tenement House Dept. Report) v. 9 1917 | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTDN (New York (City). Tenement House Dept. Report) v. 7-8 (1912-16) | Item locationOffsite |
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
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJLE 80-2397 | Item locationOffsite |
Our brethren of the tenements and the ghetto, by M. J. McKenna.
Microform
New York, J. S. Ogilvie, [1899]
1899
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Tenants and trustees : a study of the poor in Madras / Paul D. Wiebe.
Book/Text
Delhi : Macmillan, c1981.
1981
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJLD 82-1599 | Item 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
0 resources
The Glasgow denement : a way of life : a social, historical and architectural study / Frank Worsdall.
Book/Text
Glasgow : Drew, 1989.
1989-1979
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJFE 90-1754 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Rapid rehabilitation of old-law tenements: an evaluation.
Book/Text
[New York], 1968.
1968
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJLE 88-994 | Item 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
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| FormatMicroform | Call number*Z-5955 | Item 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/Text | Call numberJFD 91-12815 | Item 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
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJAX E-473 | Item 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
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSc 331.8-F (Ford, J. Slums and housing) v. 2 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSc 331.8-F (Ford, J. Slums and housing) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Let in the sun.
Book/Text
New York, Macmillan [c1964]
1964
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSc 331.8-K (Klein, W. Let in the sun) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberD-15 8180 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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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
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTDN (Abbott, E. Tenements of Chicago) | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTDN (Abbott, E. Tenements of Chicago) | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call 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/Text | Call numberSc 331.8-W (Weller, C. Neglected neighbors in the national capital) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Views of street scenes and various interiors in New York City. [graphic] / Godfrey Frankel.
Picture
1947-1949.
1947-1949
0 resources
Views of New York City and North Carolina. [graphic] / J. H. Jowers.
Picture
1966.
1966
0 resources
Views of women and children in New York City. [graphic] / Helen Levitt.
Picture
1938-1956.
1938-1956
1 resource
Available online
Photographs concerning labor, housing and social conditions in the United States [graphic] / Lewis Wickes Hine.
Picture
ca. 1900-1937.
1900-1937
1 resource
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Photographs of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Havana, Cuba [graphic] / Sol Libsohn.
Picture
1950-1966.
1950-1966
0 resources
FINDING AID AVAILABLEJacob Riis papers, 1871-1916, bulk (1900-1910).
Archival Mix
1871-1916
1 resource
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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
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberIRGV 95-13084 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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FINDING AID AVAILABLERichard Watson Gilder papers, 1855-1916.
Archival Mix
1855-1916
19 items
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| FormatArchival Mix | Call 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 Mix | Call 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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| FormatArchival Mix | Call number*ZL-330 r. 19: Letter book 19. (1906 Apr 18-1907 Apr 26) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
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FINDING AID AVAILABLEMarc Eidlitz and Son records, 1895-1916.
Archival Mix
1895-1916
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Unit I, Immigration. (2), Life and labor in America with emphasis upon racial contributions [graphic] / Photo-study by Lewis W. Hine.
Picture
1905-1935, printed 1939.
1905-1935
1 item
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| FormatPicture | Call numberAZ 19-236 | Item locationOffsite |
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/Text | Call numberD-12 8450 | Item 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/Text | Call numberTDN (New York State. Tenement House Committee. Report. 1895) | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call 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/Text | Call numberSERA (Harvard city planning studies. [no.] 12) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSER (Walker, M. L. Urban blight and slums) | Item locationOffsite |
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/Text | Call 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/Text | Call numberSGG (Riis, J. A. Battle with the slum. 1902) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call 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
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| FormatBook/Text | Call 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
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSGG (Riis, J. A. Ten years' war) 1900 | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSGG (Riis, J. A. Ten years' war) | Item locationOffsite |
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/Text | Call 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/Text | Call numberSPP (Nussbaum, H. C. Hygiene des wohnungswesens) | Item locationOffsite |
Les logements à bon marché; recueil annoté des discussions, déliberations et rapports du Conseil municipal de Paris, pub. suivant décision du Conseil par Lucien Lambeau ...
Book/Text
Paris, Impr. Municipale, 1897.
1897
1 item
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTDN (Lambeau, L. Logements à bon marché) | 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/Text | Call 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/Text | Call 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/Text | Call 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/Text | Call numberTDN (De Forest, R. W. Tenement house problem) | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTDN (De Forest, R.W. Tenement house problem) | Item locationOffsite |
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Chapter 334, laws of 1901, in relation to tenement houses. Issued by the Department of Buildings of the City of New York ...
Book/Text
[New York, 1901]
1901
1 item
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTDN (New York State. Chapter 334, laws of 1901) | Item locationOffsite |
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/Text | Call numberTDN (New York (State). New York laws relating to apartment and tenement houses) | Item locationOffsite |
The Tenement House Act. (Chapters 334 and 555, laws of 1901; chapter 352, laws of 1902; chapter 179, laws of 1903; chapters 346 and 739, laws of 1904.) Prepared for the Tenement House Department.
Book/Text
[New York, M.B. Brown] 1904.
1904
1 item
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTDN (New York State. Tenement house act. 1904) | 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/Text | Call 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/Text | Call 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/Text | Call numberTDN (Post, L. W. Challenge of housing) | Item locationOffsite |