Reminiscences of Lawrence Veiller : oral history, 1949.

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Reminiscences of Lawrence Veiller : oral history, 1949.

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Tenement house reform, New York, N.Y., 1892-1902; City Club and municipal reform, 1903-06; national movement for housing reform; Hoover Housing Conference, 1931-32; zoning and city planning; initiation of permanent population data in sample New York, N.Y. blocks; traffic control and rapid transit problems; reforms in New York, N.Y. courts: Magistrate's, Children's and Domestic Relations; records systems. Relations with Mayors George McClellan, William Gaynor, and John Hylan, and others.

Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Veiller, Lawrence, 1872-1959

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Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971

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Historian, journalist and educator. He attended the University of Illinois where he earned a B. A. 1912 and an M. A. in English, 1913. Nevins moved to New York to work and eventually was made a Professor of History at Columbia University. Wrote numerous biographies and articles on history. President of the American History Association in 1959. Helped found the Society of American Historians. From the description of Commencement address, June 1953. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Librar...

Albertson, Dean, 1920-

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