The American Institute of Social Service Exhibition, Photographs

id
5919
origination
N/A
date statement
1905
key date
1905
identifier (local_mss)
22232
org unit
Photography Collection
call number
ReCAP 12-23931
b-number
b19686036
total components
255
total series
11
max depth
3
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 15:05:27 UTC
updated
2026-08-16 02:31:47 UTC
status note
(missing)

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unitdate
{"value"=>"1905", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1905"}
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1905
date_inclusive_end
1905
keydate
1905
date_start
1905
date_end
1905
unittitle
{"value"=>"The American Institute of Social Service Exhibition, Photographs"}
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repository
{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. General Research Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
abstract
{"value"=>"The American Institute of Social Service made an exhibition of American social conditions in 1900s. Photographs are show the character of tenements, churches and industrial betterment institutions in a number of American and foreign manufacturing establishments."}
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>Photographs show the character of tenements, churches and industrial betterment institutions in a number of American and foreign manufacturing establishments.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The The American Institute of Social Service Exhibition, Photographs are arranged in eleven series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/grd/22232#c1030552'>I. Evolution of the Tenement</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series I includes photographs of Albergo Popolare, Milan's Workingmen's Hotel, California State Prison, Cooperative Industries in Milan, Home for Aged Workmen, Supported by the Firm of Jacob Ballenberg, Cologne, Germany, Housing Liverpool, London County Council House, Milbank Estate and other.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/grd/22232#c1030592'>II. Industrial Betterment</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series II includes photographs of Association of the Clothing Industry, Berlin, The Cooperative Law Company, Brooklyn, N. Y., Draper Company, Hopedale, Massachusetts, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N. Y., H. J. Heinz Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., National Cash Register Co., Dayton, Ohio, Proximity Manufacturing Co., White Oak Cotton Hills, Greensboro, N. C., Sherwin-Williams Co., Cleveland, Ohio and other.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/grd/22232#c1030640'>III. Institutional church</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series III includes photographs of Baptist Temple, Philadelphia, Christ Church, New York, First Congregational, Elyria, Ohio, Pilgrim Congregational Church, Cleveland, Ohio, St. James, Pa. St. Timothy's Chapel, The Washington Square Methodist Episcopal Church, New York City and other.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/grd/22232#c1030675'>IV. Labor and Industry</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series IV includes photographs of Billiard Room, The Celluloid Club, Newark, Club House and Grounds, Howland Croft's Sons Co., Camden, N. J.; Library, Weston Electrical Instrument Co., Newark, N. J., Dressing room for Female Operatives, Ferris Brothers' Works, Newark, N. J., Lunch-Room, American Brake-Shoe and Foundry company and others.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/grd/22232#c1030703'>V. Life and Labor</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series V includes photographs of life and labor in Italy, Holland, France, and New York.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/grd/22232#c1030710'>VI. Organized denominational work for social betterment</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series VI includes photographs of Biddle University, Charlotte, N. C., Fisk University, Nashville, Straight University, New Orleans, Tougaloo University, Miss. and other.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/grd/22232#c1030720'>VII. Park System</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series VII includes photographs of Borough of Manhattan, New York City, Bronx Park, Borough of Bronx, New York City, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Prospect Park, Borough of Brooklyn, New York City and other.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/grd/22232#c1030732'>VIII. Salvation Army</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series VIII includes photographs of Bureau, Relief Department, Denver, Col., Christmas Dinner party, Coal by the Pail and Bucket, Chatham Square Lodging House, Auction sale of second hand clothing, Type setting at headquarters, Dry Dock Shelter, New York and other.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/grd/22232#c1030753'>IX. San Francisco, California</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series IX includes photographs of Chinatown, clubs and societies, fire department, Golden Gate Park, health department, public library and other.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/grd/22232#c1030769'>X. Transit</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series X includes photographs of Brooklyn Rapid Transit and Construction Du Chemin De Fer Métropolitain Municipal de Paris.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/grd/22232#c1030772'>XI. YMCA</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series XI includes photographs of Army and Navy Department, Central Branch, Brooklyn, N. Y., Madison Ave Branch, New York City, Pennsylvania Railroad Department, Philadelphia, Association Cristiana per le Giovanni New York.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
extent_statement
54 oversize boxes 24.5 x 30.5
prefercite
{"value"=>"The American Institute of Social Service Exhibition, Photographs, Photography Collection, The New York Public Library"}

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