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BOX 1-3 REEL 1-2 Family Correspondence, 1873-1952
Letters sent and received within the Riis family and a few letters from others.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 1 REEL 1 1873-1908
(10 folders)
BOX 2 REEL 1-2 1909-1920
(12 folders)
BOX 3 REEL 2 1921-1952, undated
(8 folders)
BOX 4 REEL 3 General Correspondence, 1870-1918
Letters received and a few letters sent.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 4 REEL 3 1870-1918, undated
(10 folders)
BOX 5-9 REEL 3-5 Speeches and Writings File, circa 1877-1959
Handwritten drafts and typescripts of speeches, lectures, and articles, and outlines, printed articles, poetry, and notes.
Arranged by type of material and alphabetically by name of speech or article.
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 Speeches and lectures
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 “The Bad Boy,” 1911
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 “Battle with [the] Slum,” undated
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 Being a good neighbor, 1907
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 The Big Brother movement, 1908, undated
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 The Boy Scout movement, 1910
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 Changing the slum, 1890, undated
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 “Charities and Correction,” undated
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 Chautauqua lectures, 1908
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 Children and the future of society, undated
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 Children of the tenements, 1908
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 “Children’s Aid Society,” 1903
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 Commencement address, Barre, Mass., high school, 1913
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 Commencement address, Trinity College, Durham, N.C., 1911
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 “Duties of Citizenship,” 1908
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 George Washington’s birthday, 1912
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 “Gustav Vasa – 5 Great Women,” 1910
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 Harlan, Iowa, speech, 1907
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 Illness in the tenement district (incomplete), undated
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 “Jesus My Savior and Redeemer,” undated
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 Josephine Shaw Lowell, 1911
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 Lecture for church parties, undated
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 Lowell lecture course, 1909
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 “My Early School Experience,” 1911-1913
BOX 6 REEL 4 “My Neighbor,” undated
BOX 6 REEL 4 On Jews, 1911
BOX 6 REEL 4 On kindergartens, undated
BOX 6 REEL 4 On the mission of the city, undated
BOX 6 REEL 4 On the need for settlement houses (incomplete), undated
BOX 6 REEL 4 On religion, 1901-1906
BOX 6 REEL 4 Progressivism and the city of Chicago, Ill., 1913
BOX 6 REEL 4 “The Proposed Plan for a Young Man’s Club,” undated
BOX 6 REEL 4 St. Louis, Mo., Civic League dinner, 1908, Jan. 23
BOX 6 REEL 4 Speech at Ribe, Denmark, undated
BOX 6 REEL 4 Talk to Brooklyn Clerical Union, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1908
BOX 6 REEL 4 Theodore Roosevelt’s presidential campaign, 1912
BOX 6 REEL 4 “To Settlement Workers,” 1908, undated
BOX 6 REEL 4 “Tony Throws Stones,” 1908, undated
BOX 6 REEL 4 “True Americans,” 1908, undated
BOX 6 REEL 4 Articles
BOX 6 REEL 4 Drafts
BOX 6 REEL 4 On anarchists, 1897
BOX 6 REEL 4 “The Battle with the Slum,” undated
BOX 6 REEL 4 “The Boy is Bad” [?], undated
BOX 6 REEL 4 Charity, undated
BOX 6 REEL 4 Christianity, undated
BOX 6 REEL 4 “Dragons in the Road,” undated
BOX 6 REEL 4 “God Made the Country – Man Made the City,” undated
BOX 6 REEL 4 “The Heart of New York,” undated
BOX 6 REEL 4 “His Trials with Octavia,” undated
BOX 7 REEL 4 “The Hogs Head and the Pig,” undated
BOX 7 REEL 4 “How to Help the Other Fellow,” undated
BOX 7 REEL 4 “The Iron Crown,” undated
BOX 7 REEL 4 “Our Happy Valley,” 1959, undated
BOX 7 REEL 4 On Riis’s farm in Barre, Mass., undated
BOX 7 REEL 4 On rules for living, undated
BOX 7 REEL 4 On schools serving as community centers, undated
BOX 7 REEL 4 On scouting, undated
BOX 7 REEL 4 On tenement life, undated
BOX 7 REEL 4 On Theodore Roosevelt, undated
BOX 7 REEL 4 On Tom Crogan, undated
BOX 7 REEL 4 On women in the field of social work, undated
BOX 7 REEL 4 “Stand by the Ship,” undated
BOX 7 REEL 4 “The Story of Hamlet,” undated
BOX 7 REEL 4 “A Tragedy in Our Garden,” undated
BOX 7 REEL 4 “What Shall I Do with My Life?” 1912
BOX 7 REEL 4 “What Shall We Do with the Boy?” undated
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 Printed
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Absalon, the Warrior Bishop of the North,” 1910
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “The Battle for the Slums,” 1905
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “The Battle with the Slum,” 1901
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “The Boy Scouts,” 1913
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Children of the Danish Heath,” 1912
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “The Children of Darkness,” 1906
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Children of the People,” 1903
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “The Children’s Plea,” 1906
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Chips from the Maelstrom,” 1909
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “The Christian Manliness of Roosevelt,” 1901
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “City Farms and Harvest Dances,” 1909
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Cooperation in Denmark: Educating the Farmers to Rule the Nation,” 1913
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Crowded Pews in Many Lands,” 1910
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Experiences of a Popular Lecturer,” 1908
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “The Gambling Mania,” undated
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “The Golden Rule in Poverty Row,” 1905
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Gotham Doings,” 1884
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “A Great, Simple, Men’s Church,” 1912
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Hamlet’s Castle,” undated
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Hans Egede, the Apostle of Greenland,” 1909
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Has Reform Made Good?” 1903
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Has Roosevelt Made Good?” 1908
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “The Heart of New York,” 1913
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Humanly Speaking,” 1909
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “In the Gateway of Nations,” undated
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “The Kid Hangs up His Stocking,” 1901
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “A Kindly Journey,” 1910
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “King Frederik at Home,” 1906
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Last Chance Gulch To-Day,” 1907
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 Letter to South Brooklyn News, 1877
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Making a Way out of the Slum,” 1900
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “The Man Who Is an Immigrant,” letter to Survey, 1911
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “The Methodist Spirit: A Tribute,” undated
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “A Modern St. George,” 1911
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Mrs. Roosevelt and Her Children,” 1902
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “My Boyhood’s Black Friend,” 1907
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “My Old Man of the Mountain,” 1908
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Neighbors Needed,” 1909
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “The New York Tenement-House Commission,” 1900
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Neils Juel’s Chair,” 1912
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