A Ten Years' War
by Jacob A. Riis
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About this eBook
- Author
- Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914
- Title
- A Ten Years' War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York
- Credits
- Produced by David Edwards, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare
- Subject
- Slums -- New York (State) -- New York
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 38821
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38821
- Release Date
- February 10, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A TEN YEARS' WAR
- 2.BY JACOB A. RIIS — AUTHOR OF "HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES" — WITH ILLUSTRATIONS — BOSTON AND NEW YORK — HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1900 — COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY JACOB A. RIIS — ALL RIGHTS RESERVED — TO THE FAINT-HEARTED AND THOSE OF LITTLE FAITH THIS VOLUME IS REPROACHFULLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR — COLONEL GEORGE E. WARING, JR.
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.A TEN YEARS' WAR
- 6.I — THE BATTLE WITH THE SLUM — POLICE STATION LODGING ROOM ON EAST SIDE
- 7.II — THE TENEMENT HOUSE BLIGHT
- 8.III — THE TENEMENT: CURING ITS BLIGHT — THE MOTT STREET BARRACKS — ALFRED CORNING CLARK BUILDINGS Model Tenements of City and Suburban Homes Co. — EVENING IN ONE OF THE COURTS IN MILLS HOUSE No. 1
- 9.IV — THE TENANT — BONE ALLEY
- 10.V — THE GENESIS OF THE GANG
- 11.VI — LETTING IN THE LIGHT — MULBERRY BEND PARK
- 12.VII — JUSTICE FOR THE BOY — LETTER H PLAN OF PUBLIC SCHOOL No. 165 Showing Front on West 109th Street — PLAYGROUND ON ROOF OF NEW EAST BROADWAY SCHOOLHOUSE Area 8,348 square feet
- 13.VIII — REFORM BY HUMANE TOUCH — A TAMMANY-SWEPT EAST SIDE STREET, BEFORE WARING ( See picture facing page 248 ) — THE SAME EAST SIDE STREET WHEN COLONEL WARING WIELDED THE BROOM ( See picture facing page 242 ) — THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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