Some Studies of Urban Conditions by Contemporary Observers, 1840-1930.

 

 

Children

 

Jane Addams, The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets (1909) Babbidge: HQ796.A3

 

Edward N. Clopper, Child Labor in City Streets (1912) Greater Hartford Library: HD 6231.C5

 

Philip Davis, Street Land: Its Little People and Big Problems (1915) Babbidge: HT206 D33

 

Jacob A. Riis, The Children of the Poor (1905) Babbidge: HV885.N49R5 1905a

 

John Spargo, The Bitter Cry of the Children (1906) Babbidge: HV 713. S7

 

 

Health Conditions

 

Citizens Council of New York, Report of the Council of Hygiene and Public Health of the Citizens' Association of the New York Upon the Sanitary Condition of the City (ca. 1865) Babbidge: RA447.N7 C6 1970. Excerpts available online: http://vm.uconn.edu/~pbaldwin/ward4p3.html

 

John H. Griscom, A History, Chronological and Circumstantial, of the Visitations of Yellow Fever at New York (1858) Babbidge Microfilm: American culture series Reel 184.7

 

John H. Griscom, The sanitary condition of the laboring population of New York (1845) Babbidge Microfilm: Goldsmiths' Kress library of economic literature, Segment 2, no. 34372.

 

Lemuel Shattuck, Report of the Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts (1850) Babbidge: 614.0974 M382 Available online at: http://www.deltaomega.org/shattuck.pdf

 

Stephen Smith, The City that Was (1911) Babbidge: RA448.N5 S57

 

Waring, George, Report on the Social Statistics of Cities Babbidge: HT123.W226

 

 

Housing Conditions

 

Hull-House Maps and Papers (1895) Babbidge: HV4196.C4 H76 (1895) Available on-line: http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/Addams/hhtoc.html

 

Robert W. DeForest and Lawrence Veiller, eds., The Tenement House Problem (1903)

Babbidge: HD7304.N5 D3 1970

 

W.D. Howells, Suburban Sketches (1871) Available online: http://historical.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cul.cdl/docviewer?did=cdl037

 

Jacob A. Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890) Babbidge: HV4046 N6 R55. Also available on-line: http://www.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html

 

Jacob A. Riis, The Battle with the Slum (1902) Babbidge: HV4046.N6 R5

 

Carroll D. Wright, The Slums of Baltimore, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. Greater Hartford Library: HV4043.A4

 

Harvey Warren Zorbaugh, The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicagos Near North Side (1929) Babbidge: HN80.C5 Z67

 

 

Immigrants and African-Americans

 

Grace Abbott, The Immigrant and the Community (1917) Babbidge: 325.1 Ab26i

 

Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910) Babbidge: HV4196.C4 A3 1999. Available online: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/ADDAMS/title.html

 

Chicago Commission on Race Relations, The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot (1922) Babbidge: 325.26 IL6

 

W.E.B. DuBois, The Black North in 1901: A Social Study Babbidge: F128.9.N3 D8

 

W.E.B. DuBois, The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study Babbidge: F158.9 N3 D8

 

Hull-House Maps and Papers (1895) Babbidge: HV4196.C4 H76 (1895) Available on-line: http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/Addams/hhtoc.html

 

Paul Underwood Kellogg, ed., Wage-Earning Pittsburgh (1914) Babbidge: HD8085.P63 W3 1974

 

William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, The Polish peasant in Europe and America (1927) Babbidge: 323.33 t368p

 

 

Prostitution


Jane Addams, A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil (1912) Babbidge: HQ144.A7 2002

 

Chicago Vice Commission, The Social Evil in Chicago: A Study of Existing Conditions with Recommendations by the Vice Commission of Chicago. (1911) Babbidge: 301.4243 C432s Available online: http://historical.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cul.cdl/docviewer?did=cdl380

 

George G. Foster, New York By Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches (1850) Babbidge: F128.44 F758

 

James Dabney McCabe, Secrets of the Great City (1868)

 

 

Women

 

Elizabeth Beardsley Butler, Women and the Trades, Pittsburgh, 1907-1908 (1909) Babbidge: 331.4 B97

 

Carroll D. Wright, Working Girls of Boston HD6096.B7W8

 

Harvey Warren Zorbaugh, The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicagos Near North Side (1929) Babbidge: HN80.C5 Z67

 

 

Working Conditions

 

Elizabeth Beardsley Butler, Women and the Trades, Pittsburgh, 1907-1908 (1909) Babbidge: 331.4 B97

Helen Campbell, Prisoners of Poverty: Women Wage Workers, Their Trades and Their Lives (1887) Available online: http://historical.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cul.cdl/docviewer?did=cdl254

 

Paul Underwood Kellogg, ed., Wage-Earning Pittsburgh (1914) Babbidge: HD8085.P63 W3 1974

 

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle. Babbidge: Also available online: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/SINCLAIR/front.html