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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
Rapid rehabilitation of old-law tenements: an evaluation.
Book/Text
[New York], 1968.
1968
1 item
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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
0 resources
The failure of housing regulation.
Book/Text
New York City : New York City Housing Authority, 1936.
1936
1 item
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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
2 items
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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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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
1 item
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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
0 resources
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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/Text | Call numberD-12 8450 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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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
1 item
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSGG (Riis, J. A. Battle with the slum. 1912) | 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 |
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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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 |
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 |
Tenement house legislation in New York, 1852-1900. Prepared for the Tenement House Commission of 1900 by Lawrence Turnure.
Book/Text
Albany, N.Y., Brandow, 1900.
1900
2 items
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTDN (Veiller, L. T. Tenement house legislation in New York) | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTDN (Veiller, L. T. Tenement house legislation in New York) | Item locationOffsite |
The New York needle-woman, or, Elsie's stars / by the Author of The shoe binders of New York, Annie Lorimer, Golden Life, &c., &c.
Book/Text
Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication, c1868.
1868
1 item
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberVTZF (Wright, J. M. New York needle woman) | Item locationOffsite |
Survey of vacancies in class-A-multiple dwellings, 1933; compiled by direction of Charles F. Kerrigan ...
Book/Text
[New York, 1933]
1933
1 item
| Format | Call number | Item location |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTDN+ (New York (city). Tenement House Department. Survey of vacancies in class-A-multiple dwellings, 1933) | Item locationOffsite |
Report of the New York City Commission on Congestion of Population. Supplementary report.
Book/Text
New York : Lecouver Press Company, 1911.
1911
1 item
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*SYA (New York City. City record. March 1911, p. 2038-2052) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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Warning! ... : keep fire-escapes clear! ...
Book/Text
[New York : The Dept., 1914]
1914
1 item
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSX (New York City. Tenement House Dept. Warning) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The story of the Sanitary engineer, later the Engineering record, supplementary to Civil War experiences, by Henry C. Meyer ...
Book/Text
New York, [Press of Jaques & Company, inc.] 1928.
1928-
1 item
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberVDC (Meyer, H. C. Story of the Sanitary engineer) | Item locationOffsite |
The true story of the worst congestion in any civilized city ... Being the summary of a report on the Committee on Congestion of Population in New York.
Book/Text
New York [1910]
1910
0 resources
Urban castles : tenement housing and landlord activism in New York City 1890-1943 / Jared N. Day.
Book/Text
New York : Columbia University Press, c1999.
1999
1 item
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberIRGC 00-1342 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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The progress of housing reform in Brooklyn; a report of the Tenement house committee of the Brooklyn bureau of charities and a study of land overcrowding in Brooklyn.
Book/Text
[Brooklyn? 1916]
1916
2 items
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTDB p.v. 60, no. 1 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*C p.v. 1601 11 titles | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Housing standards in Brooklyn; an intensive study of the housing records of 3227 workingmen's families, by John C. Gebhart.
Book/Text
[Brooklyn] The Tenement house committee of the Brooklyn bureau of charities, 1918.
1918
0 resources
The tenement house problem in New York : for the information of the Commission on Legislation Affecting Tenement and Lodging Houses, provided for in Chapter 84, Laws of 1887.
Book/Text
[New York : Health Dept.], 1887.
1887
0 resources
Tenement house administration, steps taken to locate and to solve problems of enforcing the tenement house law.
Book/Text
[New York] Bureau of municipal research, 1909.
1909
0 resources
What the Board of Health may do about tenement-houses / State Charities Aid Association.
Book/Text
New York : The Association, 1884.
1884
0 resources
Tenement house reform in New York, 1834-1900. Prepared for the Tenement house Commission of 1900 ...
Book/Text
New York, The Evening Post Job Printing House, 1900.
1900
1 resource
Available online
Housing reform in New York city; a report of the Tenement house committee of the Charity organization society of the city of New York, 1911, 1912, 1913, issued January, 1914.
Book/Text
[New York, M. B. Brown printing & binding co., 1914]
1914
0 resources
Housing administration in New York City; 1902-1937 Tenement House Department, 1938- Division of Housing, Department of Housing and Buildings.
Book/Text
N.Y., C.O.S. Committee on Housing [1938]
1938
0 resources
Tenement house fire escapes in New York and Brooklyn : prepared for the Tenement House Commission of 1900 / Hugh Bonner , Lawrence Veiller.
Book/Text
New York, Evening Post Job Printing House, 1900.
1900
0 resources
Housing conditions. Program of architectural competition for the remodeling of a New York city tenement block under the auspices of the Joint legislative committee on housing and the Reconstruction commission of the state of New York. March 26, 1920.
Book/Text
Albany, J.B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1920.
1920
0 resources
In the Court of appeals; Otto Grimmer, appellant against Tenement house department of the City of New York, and others, respondents. Memorandum in behalf on tenement house committee of the Charity organization society of the city of New York...
Book/Text
N.Y., C. P. Young Co., Printers, n.d.
-
0 resources
The tenement house problem in New York [microform] : for the information of the Commission on Legislation Affecting Tenement and Lodging Houses, provided for in Chapter 84, Laws of 1887.
Microform
[New York : Health Dept.], 1887.
1887
1 item
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| FormatMicroform | Call number*Z-322 | Item locationOffsite |
Annual report of the Tenement House Committee, Brooklyn Bureau of Charities.
Book/Text
[Brooklyn? : The Committee
unknown-present
1 item
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTDN (Brooklyn bureau of social service. Tenement House Committee. Annual) 1911, 1912/13 | Item locationOffsite |
A tenement story : the history of 97 Orchard Street and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.
Book/Text
[New York] : Lower East Side Tenement Museum, c1999.
1999
1 item
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberIRGV 01-7089 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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A contract with God and other tenement stories / by Will Eisner, [writer and artist]
Book/Text
New York : DC Comics, c1996.
1996
1 item
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|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call number*PST 05-204 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 |
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Henry Atterbury Smith : architect of model tenements / Stephen Beszedits.
Book/Text
[New York, N.Y.] : S. Beszedits, 2005.
2005
1 item
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|---|---|---|
| FormatBook/Text | Call numberJAX G-1887 | Item locationOffsite |
The contract with God trilogy : life on Dropsie Avenue / Will Eisner.
Book/Text
New York : W.W. Norton, ©2006.
2006
1 item
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*PST 06-2373 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 |
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[Photographic negatives of the New York City Tenement House Department] [transparency].
Film, Slide, etc.
[1902-1914]
1902-1914
8 items
Available online
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| FormatFilm, Slide, etc. | Call numberAZ 07-299 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Mezzanine Room 121 |
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| FormatFilm, Slide, etc. | Call numberAZ 07-299 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Mezzanine Room 121 |
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| FormatFilm, Slide, etc. | Call numberAZ 07-299 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Mezzanine Room 121 |
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Housing for the working classes : Henry Phipps, from the Carnegie Steel Company to Phipps Houses / by John L. Fox.
Book/Text
Larchmont, N.Y. : Memorystone Pub., 2007.
2007
1 item
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberIRH 07-4148 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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How the other half lives [microform] : studies among the tenements of New York / by Jacob A. Riis ; with illustrations chiefly from photographs taken by the author.
Microform
New York : Scribner's Sons, 1903, c1890.
1970-1903
0 resources
A ten years' war [microform] : an account of the battle with the slum in New York / by Jacob A. Riis ...
Microform
Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, 1900.
1970-1900
0 resources
The battle with the slum [microform] / by Jacob A. Riis ...
Microform
New York ; London : Macmillan, 1902.
1970-1902
0 resources
New York City -- tenements [graphic].
Picture
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1 resource
Available online
Morning glory Monday / Arlene Alda ; illustrated by Maryann Kovalski.
Book/Text
Toronto : Tundra Books, c2003.
2003
1 item
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| FormatText | Call numberJ PIC A | Item locationOffsite |
2371 2nd Avenue [videorecording] : an East Harlem story / produced and directed by Steven Goodman.
VHS
New York, NY : Educational Video Center, 1986.
1986
1 item
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|---|---|---|
| FormatVHS | Call numberVTH 3573 | Item locationOffsite |
Available by appointment.