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Speeches and Writings File, circa 1877-1959 (continued)
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “The Old King and the New,” 1912
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 On Christmas, short articles, 1907-1910
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 On the New York City election, 1903
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “One Thing the Sage Foundation Can Do for New York,” 1907
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Our Happy Valley,” undated
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Our Latest Bird Immigrant,” 1912
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Our Roof Garden among the Tenements,” 1908
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “The People’s Institute of New York,” 1910
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Preaching and Practice,” 1909
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Report to the Council of Confederated Good Government Clubs,” 1896
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Rescuing Our National Festivals,” 1913
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Roosevelt: The First Citizen of America,” 1910
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Sentiment as an Asset,” 1909
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “‘Slippers,’ the White House Cat,” 1908
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “A Story of Bleecker Street,” 1901
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “The Story of Theodore Roosevelt’s Life,” part 4, 1902
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “The Story of the Peat-Bog Told,” 1911
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Tammany the People’s Enemy,” 1901
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “True Neighborliness,” 1911
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Wearing Our Way,” 1909
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “What a Dandelion Did for City Children,” 1907
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “What Ails Our Boys?” 1911
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “What Bad Housing Means to the Community,” 1911
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “What My Faith Means to Me,” fragment, 1910
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “What Settlements Stand For,” fragment, 1908
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 “Will It Last?” 1900
BOX 9 REEL 5 Outline, The Making of an American
BOX 9 REEL 5 Poetry
BOX 9 REEL 5 Notes
BOX 9 REEL 5 Autobiographical
BOX 9 REEL 5 “The Chants of the Poor”
BOX 9 REEL 5 Concerning children
BOX 9 REEL 5 On the Children’s Aid Society
BOX 9 REEL 5 On Theodore Roosevelt
BOX 9 REEL 5 Unorganized notes and fragments
(7 folders)
BOX 10-12 REEL 5-6 Scrapbooks, 1881-1900
Scrapbooks containing articles and serializations of books by Riis, newspaper clippings, book reviews, lecture reviews, letters to Riis concerning his lectures, and reports he drafted while serving on the Council of Confederated Good Government Clubs and the Small Parks Committee.
BOX 10 REEL 5 1889-1900
BOX 10 REEL 5 Reviews of How the Other Half Lives
BOX 10 REEL 5 Reviews of lectures
BOX 10 REEL 5 Serialization of How the Other Half Lives
BOX 10 REEL 5 Articles for Century Magazine and The Churchman
BOX 10 REEL 5 Newspaper articles
BOX 11 REEL 6 circa 1889-1900
BOX 11 REEL 6 Articles for Scribner’s Magazine, American Monthly Magazine, Review of Reviews, Century Magazine, and other publications
BOX 11 REEL 6 Reports on small parks
BOX 11 REEL 6 1883-1891 , articles in Danish published Nationaltitende
BOX 12 REEL 6 1888, letters and comments concerning Riis’s lecture, “How the Other Half Lives”
BOX 12 REEL 6 1881-1892
BOX 12 REEL 6 Newspaper articles for New York Tribune and New York Sun
BOX 12 REEL 6 Serialization of How the Other Half Lives
BOX 13-17 REEL 6-8 Miscellany
Appointment books, financial records, a master's thesis and other biographical information on Riis, a genealogy, deeds, indentures, printed matter, radio scripts, minutes of meetings, tributes, and newspaper clippings. Containers 16-17 are comprised of newspaper clippings that were not filmed.
Arranged by type of material.
BOX 13 REEL 6-7 Appointment books, 1902-1914
BOX 13 REEL 6-7 Bank account books, 1902-1904
BOX 13 REEL 6-7 Biographical material
BOX 13 REEL 6-7 Master's thesis by George Buell, 1952
BOX 14 REEL 7-8 General
(5 folders)
BOX 14 REEL 7-8 Bills
BOX 14 REEL 7-8 Case studies
BOX 14 REEL 7-8 Certificates and diplomas
BOX 14 REEL 7-8 Deeds, indentures, and wills
BOX 14 REEL 7-8 Epilogue by Jacob Riis Owre to the 1970 edition of The Making of an American by Jacob A. Riis
BOX 14 REEL 7-8 Establishing an ocean park, 1910, chronological sketch
BOX 14 REEL 7-8 Expense books, 1895-1900
(3 folders)
BOX 14 REEL 7-8 Fragments
BOX 14 REEL 7-8 Genealogy of the Riis family
BOX 14 REEL 7-8 A hospital for the treatment of nonpulmonary tuberculosis in children, reports on
BOX 14 REEL 7-8 Information concerning the translation of Riis family letters
BOX 14 REEL 7-8 Interview with Mrs. Oscar Owre, daughter of Jacob Riis
BOX 14 REEL 7-8 Invitations
BOX 14 REEL 7-8 List of family members
BOX 14 REEL 7-8 Material concerning Denmark
BOX 14 REEL 7-8 Narration of Riis’s life, radio scripts
BOX 15 REEL 8 Notes and notations
BOX 15 REEL 8 Plat drawings
BOX 15 REEL 8 Printed matter
(5 folders)
BOX 15 REEL 8 Receipt book
BOX 15 REEL 8 Receipts
BOX 15 REEL 8 Reviews
BOX 15 REEL 8 Small Parks Committee, minutes and reports, 1897-1908
BOX 15 REEL 8 Smith, Alfred Emanuel and the 1928 presidential election, press releases from Roger William Riis
BOX 15 REEL 8 Tributes
BOX 15 REEL 8 Writings by others
BOX 16not filmed Newspaper clippings
(8 folders)
BOX 17not filmed Newspaper clippings
(5 folders)
BOX 18not filmed Addition, 1898-1990
Family and general correspondence, notes, clippings, wedding invitations, and other material.
Arranged by type of material and therein chronologically.
BOX 18not filmed Correspondence
BOX 18 Family, 1903-1990, undated
(5 folders)
BOX 18 General, 1898-1900
BOX 18 Miscellany, 1942-1943, 1980, 1988, undated
BOX 18 Notes by Martha Riis Moore, undated
BOX 18 Wedding invitations from Riis descendants, 1940-1990

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