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| How the Other Half Lives | ||
| Jacob Riis's 1890 expose of tenement squalor in New York City. ( http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html ) | ||
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| On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century | ||
| Includes essays by Howells, Riis, and other observers. ( http://tenant.net/Community/LES/contents.html ) | ||
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| Madison: A Model City | ||
| Electronic version of John Nolen's 1911 City Beautiful plan for Wisconsin's capital. The large, graphics-heavy pages can take several minutes to load over a dial-up connection. ( http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ModelCity/ModelCity_top.html ) | ||
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| The Jack London Collection | ||
| Writings (some illustrated), personal papers, and commentary. ( http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/ ) | ||
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| The Emma Goldman Papers | ||
| Writings by and about the anarchist and feminist, including long sections of her books. ( http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/ ) | ||
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| Eyewitness Account of a Titanic Survivor | ||
| Site also includes other Titanic-related stories from the San Francisco press. ( http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/dodge.html ) | ||
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| The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | ||
| Thorough site with oral histories, photos, and accounts of the public response to and government investigation of the fire. ( http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/ ) | ||
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