Title: Memoranda relating to the origin and construction of the peoples's baths 9 Centre Market Place
Description: Album of manuscript and typed letters, signed, and clippings. Mounted in the album are: 10 letters discussing the project, a 20-page typescript opening essay, an invitation to the opening of the baths, tickets for the baths, advertisements for the baths (in English, German and/or Italian) newspaper accounts, and statistical reports on its use from August 1891 through March 1892, including selected pages from the 48th annual report of the Association.
Subjects: Public baths, History, Sources, Correspondence, Tickets, Specimens, Invitation cards, New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor
Places: New York (State), New York
People: Gouverneur M. Smith, John Paton president of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, Wm. G. Hamilton chairman of the Committee on People's Baths, New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor
Time periods: 19th century