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The man farthest down : a record of observation and study in Europe

Title
The man farthest down : a record of observation and study in Europe / by Booker T. Washington, with the collaboration of Robert E. Park.
Author
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
Publication
  • Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912.
  • ©1912.

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Additional Authors
  • Park, Robert Ezra, 1864-1944.
  • Doubleday, Page & Company, publisher.
  • Country Life Press, printer.
Description
[6], 390, [2] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : map; 21 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subjects
Note
  • With a half-title.
  • List of other works by Washington on verso of half-title page.
  • "Copyright, 1911, by the Outlook Company. Copyright, 1912, by Doubleday, Page & Company. All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian."--verso of title page.
  • "The Country Life Press, Garden City, N.Y."--printer statement, page [1] at end.
Source (note)
  • Arthur A. Schomburg;
Provenance (note)
  • is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Contents
Hunting the man farthest down -- The man at the bottom in London -- From Petticoat Lane to Skibo Castle -- First impression of life and labour on the continent -- Politics and races -- Strikes and farm labour in Italy and Hungary -- Naples and the land of the emigrant -- The labourer and the land of Sicily -- Women and the wine harvest in Sicily -- The Church, the people and the Mafia -- Child labour and the sulphur mines -- Fiume, Budapest and the immigrant -- Cracow and the Polish Jew -- A Polish village in the mountains -- A Russian border village -- The women who work in Europe -- The organization of country life in Denmark -- Reconstructing the life of the labourer in London -- John Burns and the man farthest down in London -- The future of the man farthest down.
Call Number
Sc 331.8-W (Washington, B. T. Man farthest down)
LCCN
12022002
OCLC
  • 1828164
  • NYPGR1828164-B
Author
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915, author.
Title
The man farthest down : a record of observation and study in Europe / by Booker T. Washington, with the collaboration of Robert E. Park.
Publisher
Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912.
Copyright Date
©1912.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Provenance
Copy in Sc 331.8-W (accession no. B594295) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
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Full text available via HathiTrust (University of California copy)
Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Park, Robert Ezra, 1864-1944.
Doubleday, Page & Company, publisher.
Country Life Press, printer.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research Call Number
Sc 331.8-W (Washington, B. T. Man farthest down)
TDI (Washington, B. T. Man farthest down)
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