Children of the Tenements (Registro nro. 62741)
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| control field | UtSlPG |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20260610133510.0 |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 03028289 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PS |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Riis, Jacob A. |
| Fuller form of name | (Jacob August), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1849-1914 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Children of the Tenements |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2007 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2007-05-23 |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | The rent baby -- A story of Bleecker Street -- The kid hangs up his stocking -- The slipper-maker's fast -- Death comes to Cat Alley -- A proposal on the elevated -- Little Will's message -- Lost children -- Paolo's awakening -- The little dollar's Christmas journey -- The kid -- When the letter came -- The cat took the kosher meat -- Nibsy's Christmas -- In the children's hospital -- Nigger Martha's wake -- What the Christmas sun saw in the tenements -- Midwinter in New York -- A chip from the maelstrom -- Sarah Joyce's husbands -- Merry Christmas in the tenements -- Abe's game of jacks -- A little picture -- A dream of the woods -- 'Twas 'Liza's doings -- Heroes who fight fire -- John Gavin, misfit -- A heathen baby -- The christening in Bottle Alley -- In the Mulberry Street court -- Difficulties of a deacon -- Fire in the barracks -- War on the goats -- He kept his tryst -- Rover's last fight -- How Jim went to the war -- A backwoods hero -- Jack's sermon -- Skippy of Scrabble Alley -- Making a way out of the slum. |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Produced by David Edwards, Christine P. Travers and the<br/>Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net<br/>(This book was produced from scanned images of public<br/>domain material from the Google Print project.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Children of the Tenements" by Jacob A. Riis is a collection of stories that sheds light on the lives of impoverished children in the tenement districts of New York, written in the late 19th century. The narrative highlights the struggles, hopes, and resilience of these children and their families amidst the harsh realities of urban poverty. Through a series of poignant vignettes, Riis aims to portray the pressing social issues of his time, emphasizing the humanity and dignity of those living in the margins of society. The opening portion of the text introduces us to Adam Grunschlag, a Jewish pedler facing overwhelming difficulties as he navigates life in a cramped and unhealthy basement with his wife and young son, Abe. As his wife becomes gravely ill, he wrestles with the harsh realities of poverty, ultimately deciding to take desperate measures for the well-being of his family, including trying to return an infant, referred to as the “rent baby,” to its rightful parents. This part of the narrative establishes a deep sense of empathy and urgency, foreshadowing the struggles and sacrifices made by these characters in their quest for a better life. The emotional challenges they face are emblematic of the broader plight of many families in similar circumstances, setting the tone for the stories that follow. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Note about original | Original publication data not identified |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Short stories, American |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Tenement houses -- Fiction |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Relyea, C. M. |
| Fuller form of name | (Charles M.), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1863-1932 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21583">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21583</a> |
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