TENEMENTS IN THE DISTRICT

INTRODUCTION

• City Homes Association by Wendy Plotkin
• Housing Reform in the 1890’s by Wendy Plotkin

PHOTO GALLERY

• Metropolitan Housing

PHOTOJOURNALISM: PICTURING CHICAGO TENEMENTS (1900-1909)

• Plan Of Two-Room Model Tenement (1900)
• Scenes District Fire Made Families Homeless (1901)
• Tenement Conditions In Chicago (1901)
• Hot Weather Drives Thousands To Park & Lake For Relief (1903)
• Free Ice Midst Suffering West Side Tenement (1905)
• Typical Chicago Tenement Court and Children’s Playground-Ewing St. Near Halsted (1906)
• Wickedest District In The World (1906)
• Nurse Visiting Tenement and Sufferer (1909)

 THE HOUSING PROBLEM IN CHICAGO (1892-1902)

• Committee on Tenement Houses (1884)
• Among The Poor Of Chicago by Joseph Kirkland (1892)
• Housing Reform in Chicago by Robert Hunter (1902)

TENEMENT CONDITIONS IN CHICAGO (1901)

• Tenement Conditions in Chicago by Robert Hunter (1901)

CHICAGO HOUSING REFORMERS: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY (1910-1915)

• Chicago Housing Problems, Families In Furnished Rooms (1910)
• Chicago Housing Conditions, South Chicago at the Gates of the Steel Mills (1911)
• Chicago Housing Conditions, The West Side Revisited (1911)
• Housing Conditions In Chicago, Back Of The Yards (1911)
• Chicago Housing Conditions, Greeks and Italians in the Neighborhood of Hull-House (1915)

TENEMENTS (1885-1914): POPULAR CARTOONS

In response to “slum” tenements, in London, New York, and Chicago, money walked and bullshit talked. Landlord exploitation, corrupt public officials, epidemic and environmental hazards to life–especially the children–compounded the exposures to mortal risk represented in graphic art.

• NY Tenement House Fire Escapes (1885)
• One Advantage Of a NY Tenement (1895)
• Poor Man-Benefactor Hated Rich (1897)
• In Microbe Hollow (1902)
• Mass Meeting In Microbe Hollow (1902)
• The Tenement Child Before and After Infant Welfare Aid (1914)

FRANK LESLIE POPULAR ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE (NEW YORK CITY) : TENEMENTS (1881-1891)

• Canvas Swell Candidate For Political Office In Tenement District (1881)
• Fatal Fire In Rear Of Tenement (1881)
• Total Collapse Two Tenements Houses (1881)
• The Old and New Style Of Tenement Houses (1882)
• Tenement House Fire, Fathers Desperate Resort (1885)
• Tenement House Tobacco Strippers, Employment of Children (1888)
• Census Taking In NY Tenement (1891)