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

Title Neighbors [electronic resource] : life stories of the other half / by Jacob A. Riis.

Imprint New York : Macmillan, 1914.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Making of America E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description ix, 209, [9] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Series Making of America.
Note Verso of t.p.: Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1914.
Verso of t.p.: Norwood Press, J.S. Cushing Co., Berwick & Smith Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
Errors in imposition in gathering G: text is discontinuous and incomplete between p. 70 and 87.
Frontispiece and plates facing p. 9, 64, 80, 95 and 153 signed by W.T. Benda.
"The works of Jacob A. Riis," p. [4]-[5] (3rd grouping), and advertisements on p. [6]-[9] (3rd grouping).
Contents The answer of Ludlow Street -- Kin -- The wars of the Rileys -- Life's best gift -- Driven from home -- The problem from the widow Salvini -- Peter -- Kate's choice -- The mother's heaven -- Where he found his neighbor -- What the snowflake told -- The city's heart -- Chips from the maelstrom -- Heartsease -- His Christmas gift -- Our roof garden among the tenements -- The snow babies' Christmas -- As told by the rabbi -- The strand from above.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan University Library, 2005. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. (Making of America) Mode of access: Internet. The conversion of this volume made possible by U-M alumnus Lawrence Portnoy, BA 1985.
Subject Electronic information resources.
Poor -- New York (State) -- New York.
Added Author Benda, W. T. (Wladyslau Theodore), 1873-1948.
Portnoy, Lawrence, funder.
University of Michigan. Library.
In: Making of America. URL: http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/

 
    
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