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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.
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- Westport, Conn., Negro Universities Press [1971, c1936]
- 1971-1936
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JLF 72-720 v. 1 v. 1 Offsite Not available - In use until 2024-01-26 - Please for assistance.Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JLF 72-720 v. 2 v. 2 Offsite Not available - In use until 2024-01-26 - Please for assistance.El conventillo.
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- [Buenos Aires] Centro Editor de América Latina [1970]
- 1970
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JLC 76-126 Offsite 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.
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- [New York] N. Y. Cigar Manufacturers' Association, 1883.
- 1883
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Arents S 1378 Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Report.
- Text
- [New York]
- 1903-1937
- 18 Items
Available Online
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433084339336Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TDN (New York (City). Tenement House Dept. Report) v. 7-8 (1912-16) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TDN (New York (City). Tenement House Dept. Report) v. 9 1917 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TDN (New York (City). Tenement House Dept. Report) v. 10 1918/29 Offsite The tenement : a way of life : a social, historical and architectural study of housing in Glasgow / [by] Frank Worsdall.
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- [Edinburgh] : W. and R. Chambers, 1979.
- 1979
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JLE 80-2397 Offsite Our brethren of the tenements and the ghetto, by M. J. McKenna.
- Text
- New York, J. S. Ogilvie, [1899]
- 1899
Tenants and trustees : a study of the poor in Madras / Paul D. Wiebe.
- Text
- Delhi : Macmillan, c1981.
- 1981
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JLD 82-1599 Offsite Maintaining decent dwellings [microform] : a study of code enforcement in five new-law tenements.
- Text
- New York, N.Y. : Women's City Club of New York, 1963.
- 1963
The Glasgow denement : a way of life : a social, historical and architectural study / Frank Worsdall.
- Text
- Glasgow : Drew, 1989.
- 1989-1979
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 90-1754 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Rapid rehabilitation of old-law tenements: an evaluation.
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- [New York], 1968.
- 1968
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JLE 88-994 Offsite A dream fulfilled : City and Suburban's York Avenue Estate / Andrew S. Dolkart and Sharon Z. Macosko.
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- [New York] : Coalition to Save City & Suburban Housing, c1988.
- 1988
The peril and preservation of the home [microform] : being the William L. Bull lectures for the year 1903 / by Jacob A. Riis.
- Text
- Philadelphia : G.W. Jacobs & Co., [1903]
- 1903
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *Z-5955 Offsite Up oor close : memories of domestic life in Glasgow tenements, 1910-1945 / Jean Faley.
- Text
- Wendlebury, Oxon : White Cockade in association with Springburn Museum Trust, c1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 91-12815 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The failure of housing regulation.
- Text
- New York City : New York City Housing Authority, 1936.
- 1936
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JAX E-473 Offsite 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.
- Text
- Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1936.
- 1936
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 331.8-F (Ford, J. Slums and housing) v. 1 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 331.8-F (Ford, J. Slums and housing) v. 2 v. 2 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Let in the sun.
- Text
- New York, Macmillan [c1964]
- 1964
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-15 8180 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 331.8-K (Klein, W. Let in the sun) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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.
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- Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press [c1936]
- 1936
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 331.8-A (Abbott, E. Tenements of Chicago) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TDN (Abbott, E. Tenements of Chicago) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TDN (Abbott, E. Tenements of Chicago) Offsite 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.
- Text
- Philadelphia, J. C. Winston Company [c1908]
- 1908
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/15c72d60-0033-0130-c491-58d385a7bc34Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 331.8-W (Weller, C. Neglected neighbors in the national capital) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Views of street scenes and various interiors in New York City. [graphic] / Godfrey Frankel.
- Still image
- 1947-1949.
- 1947-1949
Views of New York City and North Carolina. [graphic] / J. H. Jowers.
- Still image
- 1966.
- 1966
Views of women and children in New York City. [graphic] / Helen Levitt.
- Still image
- 1938-1956.
- 1938-1956
- 1 Resource
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https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/df8e2060-c628-012f-eeb6-58d385a7bc34Photographs concerning labor, housing and social conditions in the United States [graphic] / Lewis Wickes Hine.
- Still image
- ca. 1900-1937.
- 1900-1937
- 1 Resource
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https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/a675d330-c6cc-012f-0cfa-58d385a7bc34Photographs of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Havana, Cuba [graphic] / Sol Libsohn.
- Still image
- 1950-1966.
- 1950-1966
Jacob Riis papers, 1871-1916, bulk (1900-1910).
- Mixed material
- 1871-1916
- 1 Resource
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/cc1f4c10-3a58-0134-7d4d-00505686d14eUrban castles : tenement housing and landlord activism in New York City, 1901-1943 / by Jared N. Day.
- Text
- 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IRGV 95-13084 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Richard Watson Gilder papers, 1855-1916.
- Mixed material
- 1855-1916
- 19 Items
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https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/d30d6b70-ee18-0138-0e5e-0242ac110005Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material *ZL-330 r. 19: Letter book 19. (1906 Apr 18-1907 Apr 26) Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material *ZL-330 r. 20: Letter book 20. (1907 May 1-1908 Jul 20) Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material *ZL-330 r. 21: Letter book 21. (1908 Jul 23-1909 Nov 15) Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Marc Eidlitz and Son records, 1895-1916.
- Moving image
- 1895-1916
Unit I, Immigration. (2), Life and labor in America with emphasis upon racial contributions [graphic] / Photo-study by Lewis W. Hine.
- Still image
- 1905-1935, printed 1939.
- 1905-1935
- 1 Item
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https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/b039b670-c608-012f-8f64-58d385a7bc34#/?tab=navigation&roots=1:be4f71d0-c608-012f-0ae7-58d385a7bc34Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image AZ 19-236 Offsite How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York / introd. by Donald N. Bigelow.
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- New York : Sagamore Press, 1957.
- 1957
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-12 8450 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Report of the Tenement House Committee as authorized by chapter 479 of the laws of 1894. Transmitted to the Legislature January 17, 1895.
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- Albany, J.B. Lyon, state printer, 1895.
- 1895
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IRH (New York State. Tenement House Committee. Report. 1895) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TDN (New York State. Tenement House Committee. Report. 1895) Offsite 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]
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- Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1938.
- 1938
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text SER (Walker, M. L. Urban blight and slums) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text SERA (Harvard city planning studies. [no.] 12) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Beauty for ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with numerous illustrations.
- Text
- New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1914.
- 1914
- 1 Item
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433075936892Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text SGG (Bacon, A. F. Beauty for ashes) Offsite The battle with the slum, by Jacob A. Riis.
- Text
- New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd., 1902.
- 1902
- 2 Items
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433075936405Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text SGG (Riis, J. A. Battle with the slum. 1902) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text SGG (Riis, J. A. Battle with the slum. 1902) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Battle with the slum.
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- [s.l.] : Macmillan, 1912.
- 1912
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text SGG (Riis, J. A. Battle with the slum. 1912) Offsite A ten years' war; an account of the battle with the slum in New York, by Jacob A. Riis ...
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- Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900.
- 1900
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text SGG (Riis, J. A. Ten years' war) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text SGG (Riis, J. A. Ten years' war) 1900 Offsite Report of the New York City Commission on Congestion of Population. Transmitted to the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen, February 28, 1911.
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- New York, Lecouver Press Company, 1911.
- 1911
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text SGB (New York City. Congestion of Population Commission. Report) Offsite Die Hygiene des Wohnungswesens, von H. Chr. Nussbaum ... Mit 20 Abbildungen.
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- Leipzig, G.J. Göschen, 1907.
- 1907
- 1 Item
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433075990410Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text SPP (Nussbaum, H. C. Hygiene des wohnungswesens) Offsite 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 ...
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- Paris, Impr. Municipale, 1897.
- 1897
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TDN (Lambeau, L. Logements à bon marché) Offsite 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.
- Text
- [Louisville? 1909]
- 1909
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TDN (Louisville (Ky.). Tenement House Commission. Report) Offsite Tenement conditions in Chicago; report by the Investigating Committee. Text by Robert Hunter.
- Text
- Chicago, 1901.
- 1901
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TDN (City homes association, Chicago. Tenement conditions in Chicago) Offsite Slum clearance and rehousing; the first report of the Council for Research on Housing Construction; illustrated by photographs and drawings.
- Text
- London, Pub. for the Council by P.S. King & Son, ltd., 1934.
- 1934
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TDN (Council for Research on Housing Construction, London. Slum clearance and rehousing) Offsite 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.
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- New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd, 1903.
- 1903
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TDN (De Forest, R.W. Tenement house problem) v. 1 (1903) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TDN (De Forest, R. W. Tenement house problem) v. 2 Offsite Chapter 334, laws of 1901, in relation to tenement houses. Issued by the Department of Buildings of the City of New York ...
- Text
- [New York, 1901]
- 1901
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433010687097Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TDN (New York State. Chapter 334, laws of 1901) Offsite 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.
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- New York, C.W. Sweet, cop. 1903.
- 1903
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TDN (New York (State). New York laws relating to apartment and tenement houses) Offsite 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.
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- [New York, M.B. Brown] 1904.
- 1904
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TDN (New York State. Tenement house act. 1904) Offsite 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.
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- New York : The Record and Guide, c1902.
- 1902
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TDN (New York State. Tenement House Law and the Lodging House Law of the City of New York) Offsite L'habitation à bon marché ... Préface de M. Jules Siegfried ...
- Text
- Paris, A. Rousseau, 1906.
- 1906
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TDN (Ferrand, L. Habitation à bon marché) Offsite The challenge of housing, by Langdon W. Post.
- Text
- New York, Farrar & Rinehart [1938]
- 1938
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TDN (Post, L. W. Challenge of housing) Offsite
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