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The poor in great cities : their problems and what is doing to solve them
- Title
- The poor in great cities : their problems and what is doing to solve them / by Robert A. Woods ; W.T. Elsing ; Jacob A. Riis ; Willard Parsons ; Evert J. Wendell ; Ernest Flagg ; William Jewett Tucker ; Joseph Kirkland ; Sir Walter Besant ; Edmund R. Spearman ; Jessie White Mario ; Oscar Craig ; illustrated by Hugh Thomson [and others].
- Publication
- New York : Charles Scribner\u0027s Sons, 1895.
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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 p. : ill.; 23 cm
- Uniform Title
- Scribner\u0027s magazine.
- Subject
- Poor
- Note
- Papers contributed to Scribner\u0027s magazine during the years 1891-1893.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 09026338
- OCLC
- ocm06368806
- 6368806
- SCSB-4968594
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries