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Jacob A. Riis
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The Battle with the Slum
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SUBJECT INDEX
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Jacob A. Riis
18491914
. The Battle with the Slum.
1902.
Illustrations
Frontispiece
One of the Five Points Fifty Years Ago
The Old Church Tenement
An Old Wooster Street Court
A Fourth Ward Colony in the Bad Old Days
Dens of Death
Gotham Court
Green Dragon Yard, London
A Flagged Hallway in the Big Flat
Jersey Street Rookeries
The Survival of the Unfittest
The Rear Tenement grows up
Professor Felix Adler
A Cellar Dive in the Bend
It costs a Dollar a Month to sleep in these Sheds
Mulberry Street Police Station. Waiting for the Lodging to open
Night in Gotham Court
A Mulberry Bend Alley
In the hallway I ran across two children, little tots, who were inquiring their way to the Commissioner
With his whole hungry little soul in his eyes
One Familys Outlook on the Air Shaft. The Mother said, Our daughter does not care to come home to sleep
The only Bath-tub in the Block. It hangs in the Air Shaft
The Old Style of Tenements, with Yards
As a Solid Block of Double-deckers, lawful until now, would appear
Richard Watson Gilder
The Mott Street Barracks
R. Fulton Cutting
Alfred Corning Clark Buildings
The Riverside Tenements in Brooklyn
A Typical East Side Block
Robert W. de Forest
Plan of a Typical Floor of the Competition in the C.O.S. Plans of Model Tenements
Plans of Tenements
A Seven-cent Lodging House in the Bowery
They had a Mind to see how it looked
Doorway of the Mills House, No. 1
Evening in One of the Courts in the Mills House, No. 1
Lodging Room in the Leonard Street Police Station
Womens Lodging Room in Eldridge Street Police Station
A Scruband her Bedthe Plank
What a Search of the Lodgers brought forth
Bedroom in the New City Lodging Houses
Are we not young enough to work for him
?
The Play School. Dressing Dolls for a Lesson
Label of Consumers League
Josephine Shaw Lowell
One Door that has been opened: St. Johns Park in Hudson Street, once a Graveyard
Dr. Jane Elizabeth Robbins
One Way of bringing the Children into Camp: Basket-weaving in Vacation School
The Childrens Christmas Tree
Jacob Beresheim
Heading off the Gang. Vacation Playground near Old Frog Hollow
Craps
Childrens Playground. Good Citizenship at the Bottom of this Barrel
The Gang fell in with Joyous Shouts
Oh, mother! you were gone so long
Keep off the Grass
Colonel George E. Waring, Jr
A Tammany-swept East Side Street before Colonel Warings Day
The Same Street when Colonel Waring wielded the Broom
The Mulberry Bend
Bone Alley
Mulberry Bend Park
Roof Playground on a Public School
Kindergarten on the Recreation Pier at the Foot of East 24th Street
The East River Park
The Seward Park
The Seward Park on Opening Day
In the Roof Garden of the Hebrew Educational Alliance
Bottle Alley, Whyó Gangs Headquarters
The First Christmas Tree in Gotham Court
The Mouth of the Alley
The Wrecking of Cat Alley
Trilby
Old Barney
The Old
The New
Public School No. 177, Manhattan
Letter H Plan of Public School No. 165
Public School No. 153, The Bronx
Girls Playground on the Roof
The New Idea: a Stairway of Public School No. 170
Truck Farming on the Site of Strykers Lane
Doorway of Public School No. 165
Main Entrance of Public School No. 153
Superintendent C. B. J. Snyder
The fellows and papa and mamma shall be invited in yet
The Slide that was the Childrens only Playground once.
A Cooking Lesson in Vacation School
Such a ballroom
!
Teaching the Girls to swim
Athletic Meets in Crotona Park
Flag Drill in the Kings Garden
Mrs. Ben Wah
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