On the Lower East Side:

Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century

Compiled and edited by

William Crozier, Clarke Chambers, Patrick Costello, Chad Gaffield, Beverly Stadium

The HTML version of this document was edited by Wes Miller and Chad Massey.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
  • William Dean Howells "An East-Side Ramble"
  • Ida M. Van Etten "Russian Jews as Desirable Immigrants"
  • Jacob Riis "The Jews of New York"
  • Robert Alston Stevenson, "The Poor in Summer"
  • Abraham Cahan "The Russian Jew in America"
  • Mayor's Pushcart Commission "The New York Pushcart: Recommendations of the Mayor's Commission"
  • Annie S. Daniel "The Wreck of the Home: How Wearing Apparel is Fashioned in the Tenements"
  • Elizabeth C. Watson "Home Work in the Tenements"
  • Mary Van Kleeck "Child Labor in New York City Tenements"
  • Mary Van Kleeck "Working Hours of Women in Factories"
  • Lillian Brandt "The Causes of Poverty"
  • Mary Sherman "Manufacturing of Foods in the Tenements"
• "Introduction, The Lower East Side: The Tenement Problem and the Tenement Exhibit of 1900"
  • E. R. L. Gould "The Housing Problem in Great Cities"
  • Lawrence Veiller "The Tenement-House Exhibit of 1899"
  • Lawrence Veiller "New York's New Building Code"
  • Lewis E. Palmer "The Day's Work of a "New Law" Tenement Inspector"
  • "Report of the Tenement House Committee, Working Women's Society"
• Appendix: "The Foreign Immigrant in New York City"
  • Kate Holladay Claghorn "The Foreign Immigrant in New York City" Part 1 of 2
  • Kate Holladay Claghorn "The Foreign Immigrant in New York City" Part 2 of 2