The Poor in great cities
Subtitle: their problems and what is being done to solve them
By: by Robert A. Woods, W. T. Elsing [and others] illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Otto H. Backer [and others] ...
Contributors: Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914; Parsons, Willard; Wendell, Evert Jansen, 1860-1917; Tucker, William Jewett, 1839-1926; Kirkland, Joseph, 1830-1894; Besant, Walter, 1836-1901; Spearman, Edmund R.; Mario, Jessie White, 1832-1906; Craig, Oscar; Flagg, Ernest, 1857-1947
Publisher: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner
Published: 1896
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Poor; Cities and towns; Slums
Other titles: Scribner's magazine.
Notes: Papers contributed to Scribner's magazine during the years 1891-1893.

Microfilm. New York : Columbia University Libraries, 1981. 1 microfilm reel.  35 mm.
Table of contents: title: The social awakening in London, by R. A. Woods.; title: Life in New York tenement-houses as seen by a city missionary, by W. T. Elsing.; title: The children of the poor, by J. A. Riis.; title: The story of the fresh-air fund, by W. Parsons.; title: Boys' clubs in New York, by E. J. Wendell.; title: The work of the Andover house in Boston, by W. J. Tucker.; title: Among the poor of Chicago, by J. Kirkland.; title: A riverside parish, by Sir W. Besant.; title: A school for street Arabs, by E. R. Spearman.; title: The poor in Naples, by J. W. Mario.; title: Agencies for the prevention of pauperism, by O. Craig.; title: The New York tenement-house evil and its cure, by E. Flagg.; title: Index