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Rare books from the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections

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Jane Addams.  Twenty Years at Hull-House, with Autobiographical Notes.  New York:  MacMillan Company, 1925. [Find it at UT Libraries]

Mary Antin.  The Promised Land.  Boston, New York:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. [Find it at UT Libraries]

Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe.  The American Woman’s Home:  Or, Principles of Domestic Science.  New York:  J. B. Ford and Company, 1870. [Find it at UT Libraries]

Christopher Dresser.  Principles of Decorative Design.  New York:  Cassell Petter & Galpin, 1873. [Find it at UT Libraries]

Godey’s Lady’s Book. Philadelphia, Pa.: L. A. Godey, 1840-1892. [Find it at UT Libraries]

Constance Cary Harrison.  Woman’s Handiwork in Modern Homes.  New York:  Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1881. [Find it at UT Libraries]

Mrs. C. S. Jones and Henry T. Williams.  Beautiful Homes and How to Make Them.  Rockford, IL:  Rockford Publishing Co., 1885. [Find it at UT Libraries]

Jacob A. Riis. The Battle with the Slum.  New York:  MacMillan Company, 1902. [Find it at UT Libraries]

Jacob A. Riis. How the Other Half Lives:  Studies Among the Tenements of New York?  New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890. [Find it at UT Libraries]

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford. The Servant Girl Question. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881[Find it at UT Libraries]

Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman Jr.  The Decoration of Houses.  New York:  Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897. [Find it at UT Libraries]

Mrs. Julia McNair Wright.  The Complete Home.  Philadelphia:  J.C. McCurdy & Co., 1879. [Find it at UT Libraries]

 

Overview of exhibits on the top shelf

Jacob A. Riis. The Battle with the Slum. New York: MacMillan Company, 1902. Pages 168-9.

Jacob A. Riis. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York? New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890. (left) and
Mary Antin. The Promised Land. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. (right)

Jane Addams. Twenty Years at Hull-House, with Autobiographical Notes. New York: MacMillan Company, 1925. Pages 238-9

The Mott Street Barracks. Source: Jacob A. Riis. The Battle with the Slum. New York: MacMillan Company, 1902.

Overview of exhibits on the middle shelf

Constance Cary Harrison. Woman’s Handiwork in Modern Homes (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1881), Mrs. Julia McNair Wright. The Complete Home (Philadelphia: J. C. McCurdy & Co., 1879) and Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford. The Servant Girl Question (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881).

Christopher Dresser. Principles of Decorative Design. New York: Cassell Petter & Galpin, 1873.

Decorative Design (Illustration). Source: Christopher Dresser. Principles of Decorative Design. New York: Cassell Petter & Galpin, 1873.

Mrs. C. S. Jones and Henry T. Williams. Beautiful Homes and How to Make Them. Rockford, IL: Rockford Publishing Co., 1885.

Overview of exhibits on the bottom shelf

Godey's Fashion (illustration). Source: Godey’s Lady’s Book. Philadelphia, Pa.: L. A. Godey, 1840-1892, page 204.

Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The American Woman’s Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science. New York: J. B. Ford and Company, 1870.

Godey’s Lady’s Book. Philadelphia, Pa.: L.A. Godey, 1840-1892

Godey's Fashion (illustration). Source: Godey’s Lady’s Book. Philadelphia, Pa.: L.A. Godey, 1840-1892, page 203.

City Interiors (Illustration). Source: Godey’s Lady’s Book. Philadelphia, Pa.: L.A. Godey, 1840-1892, page 205.

Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman Jr. The Decoration of Houses. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897.

Framed photograph of an unidentified residence. From the Donald Duhaime Collection, MSS-077.