Main entry:

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

Title & Author:

Children of the tenements / by Jacob A. Riis ... ; with illustrations by C.M. Relyea and others.

Publication:

New York : The Macmillan Company ; London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1903.

Description:

ix, 387 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
"The stories ... in this volume ... were printed in ... the Evening sun. Some of them I published in the Century magazine, the Churchman, and other periodicals, and they were embodied in an earlier collection under the title 'Out of Mulberry Street.' -- Preface
Illustrated frontispiece and plates facing p. 82, 108, 188, 202, 278, 344, and 364.
The rent baby -- A story of Bleecker Street -- The kid hangs up his stocking -- The slipper-maker's fast -- Death comes to Cat Alley -- A proposal on the elevated -- Little Will's message -- Lost children -- Paolo's awakening -- The little dollar's Christmas journey -- The kid -- When the letter came -- The cat took the kosher meat -- Nibsy's Christmas -- In the children's hospital -- Nigger Martha's wake -- What the Christmas sun saw in the tenements -- Midwinter in New York -- A chip from the maelstrom -- Sarah Joyce's husbands -- Merry Christmas in the tenements -- Abe's game of jacks -- A little picture -- A dream of the woods -- 'Twas 'Liza's doings -- Heroes who fight fire -- John Gavin, misfit -- A heathen baby -- The christening in Bottle Alley -- In the Mulberry Street court -- Difficulties of a deacon -- Fire in the barracks -- War on the goats -- He kept his tryst -- Rover's last fight -- How Jim went to the war -- A backwoods hero -- Jack's sermon -- Skippy of Scrabble Alley -- Making a way out of the slum.

Summary:

The author draws on his experience as a police reporter and his observations of the real-life experiences of the people who lived in the tenements of New York City.

Subject:

Poor New York (State) New York Fiction.
Short stories, American 20th century.
Poverty.
Fictional Works
Pauvres New York (État) New York Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Nouvelles américaines 20e siècle.
Pauvreté.
poverty.
Poor
Short stories, American
New York (N.Y.) Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)
New York (State) New York
Poor children -- Fiction.
Photographs.
Photographically illustrated books -- Juvenile.

Form/genre:

short stories.
Short stories
Fiction
Nouvelles.

Added entries:

Relyea, C. M. (Charles M.), 1863-1932, illustrator.
Rent baby.
Story of Bleecker Street.
Kid hangs up his stocking.
Slipper-maker's fast.
Proposal on the elevated.
Little dollar's Christmas journey.
Kid.
Cat took the kosher meat.
Chip from the maelstrom.
Little picture.
Dream of the woods.
Heathen baby.
Christening in Bottle Alley.
Backwoods hero.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 26783
Call No.: PO7333; ID:88-B12785
Status: Available