Papers, 1898-1918.

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Papers, 1898-1918.

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This collection illuminates Estabrook's efforts to provide better housing for the poor in an era when government agencies had not yet been established for this purpose. He investigated the plight of the dispossessed in N.Y.C., 1896-7, and the tenement problem in Boston, 1898, as agent of the Twentieth Century Club. In 1899 he became agent of the Cambridge overseers of the poor, and worked with the South End House to improve or demolish the worst housing, principally in Boston's North End section. Papers include memoranda on buildings taken down, reports on local housing conditions and correspondence, with letters from Jacob Riis and Robert Treat Paine, and some printed matter.

9 folders, in box.

Boston Athenaeum

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Paine, Robert Treat, 1835-1910

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

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Journalist, author, and humanitarian. From the description of Jacob A. Riis papers, 1870-1990 (bulk 1887-1913). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71060723 Reformer, journalist, author. From the description of Papers of Jacob A. Riis [manuscript], 1899-1914. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814455 Jacob A. Riis, journalist and social reformer, was born in Denmark and moved to the United States at 21. He became a reporter for the New York trib...

Woodward, William C.

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Gould, E. R. L. (Elgin Ralston Lovell), 1860-1915

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Elgin Ralston Lovell Gould was an alumnus of The Johns Hopkins University (Ph. D 1886) who was active in urban housing reform in New York City from 1896-1915. Gould sought to provide comfortable, affordable housing for workers through the City and Suburban Homes Company. The company built model tenement houses in New York as a business investment. Gould'sinterest in reform also extended to politics. In the 1901 mayoral race he supported Seth Low's fusion candidacy agains...

Estabrook, Harold Kelsey, 1870-

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Twentieth Century Club

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The Twentieth Century Club was a social organization created in 1909 to facilitate better relationships between residents of Bellingham, Washington and faculty at Western Washington Normal School (now Western Washington University). This “town and gown” club met every September through May from 1909 to 1977 to discuss music, history, art, and politics. Membership was by invitation and, at its peak, the group had space for over one hundred members. The club first met at the Baker Hot...