Reminiscences of Lawrence Veiller, 1949.

Biographical Note

Social worker

Scope and Contents

Tenement house reform, New York, N.Y., 1892-1902; City Club and municipal reform, 1903-1906; national movement for housing reform; Hoover Housing Conference, 1931-1932; zoning and city planning; initiation of permanent population data in sample New York, N.Y. blocks; traffic control and rapid transit problems; reforms in New York, N.Y. courts: Magistrate's, Children's and Domestic Relations; records systems. Relations with Mayors George McClellan, William Gaynor, and John Hylan, and others

Subjects

• Albertson, Dean, 1920-1989, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• City planning.
• Housing.
• Interviews.
• Municipal courts.
• Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1898-1951.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Social workers--Interviews.
• Veiller, Lawrence, 1872-1959--Interviews.

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