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Author Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914.

Title How the other half lives; studies among the tenements of New York / Introd. by Donald N. Bigelow.

Publication Info. New York : Sagamore Press, 1957.

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Location Call No. Status
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  305.5 RII    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  309.107471 R572H    Check Shelf
Description 231 pages ; 21 cm.
Series American century series, S-12
Contents Genesis of the tenement -- Awakening -- Mixed crowd -- Down town back-alleys -- Italian in New York -- Bend -- Raid on the stale-beer dives -- Cheap lodging-houses -- Chinatown -- Jewtown -- Sweaters of Jewtown -- Bohemians: tenement-house cigar-making -- Color line in New York -- Common herd -- Problem of the children -- Waifs of the city's slums -- Street Arab -- Reign of rum -- Harvest of tares -- Working girls of New York -- Pauperism in the tenements -- Wrecks and the waste -- Man with the knife -- What has been done -- How the case stands.
Subject Poor -- New York (State) -- New York.
Local Subject Poor people -- New York (State) -- New York.
Subject Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York.
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