| Author | Spain, Daphne.
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| Title | How women saved the city / Daphne Spain.
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| Published | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.
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| Description | xvii, 311 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-8166-3531-5 (HC/J : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0-8166-3532-3 (PB : alk. paper) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-293) and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Voluntary vernacular -- Why cities needed saving -- Sacred and secular organizational ideologies -- Voluntary associations with an urban presence -- New York City headquarters, smaller city branches -- Boston, the cradle of redemptive places -- Men build Chicago's skyline, women redeem the city -- How women saved the city -- Appendix A : literature review -- Appendix B : organizational charters -- Appendix C : addresses of redemptive places for Boston, New York City, and Chicago.
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| Subjects | National Association of Colored Women (U.S.) -- History.
Salvation Army of America -- History.
Social settlements -- United States -- History.
Women -- United States -- Societies, etc.
Women in public life -- United States -- History.
Women social reformers -- United States -- History.
Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. -- History.
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| LC Card Number | 00-9648 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: HQ 1420 S733
mq151819: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 88743] |
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