Survey of Workingmen's Homes
in the Soho District of Pittsburgh.
A Study of Civic Neglect in the Heart of a Great City.

by Abraham Oseroff, M. A. [1914]

Contents Page-by-Page

• Title Page. [page 1]
• Index to Charts. [page 2]
• Map. (Illustration: 176K) [page 3]
• General View of the District. (Photograph: 145K) [page 4]
• Chart A. Scope of the Survey. [page 5]
• Rock Alley. (Photograph: 143K) [page 6]
• Chapter I. The District. [page 7]
• Chapter I. [pages 8-12]
• Chapter II. Rich Men's Homes and Poor Men's Hovels. [page 13]
• Chapter II. [pages 14-15]
• Charts. [page 16]
• Forbes Street Near the Twenty-Second
  Street Bridge. (Photograph: 159K) [page 17]
• Rear View of Homes Fronting on Forbes
  Street. (Photograph: 146K) [page 18]
• Chart B. Nationalities Represented in District
  Surveyed. [page 19]
• Clogged Drain on Maurice Street
  (Photograph: 122K) [top of page 20];
  Hydrant Adjacent to Privy Vault
  (Photograph: 117K) [bottom of page 20]
• Chart C. Average Rents; Chart D. Number of
  Rooms per Family. [page 21]
• Dilapidated House on Cornet Street. (Photograph: 167K) [page 22]
• Chart E. Employment of Men. [page 23]
• Chart E I. Employment of Women. [page 24]
• Chart E II. Employment of Children Under 16. [page 25]
• Rock Street. (Photograph: 175K) [page 26]
• Chart F. Privies and Closets. [page 27]
• One of the Worst Tenements of the District.
  (Photograph: 143K) [page 28]
• Chart G. Detailed Data of Families. [pages 29-31]
• A Court on Maurice Street. (Photograph: 146K) [page 32]
• Chart G. Detailed Data of Families,
  Continued. [pages 33-37]
• Dilapidated Privy Vaults Rear of Forbes Street.
  (Photograph: 87K) [left side of page 38];
  (Photograph: 87K) [right side of page 38]
• Chart G. Detailed Data of Families,
  Continued. [pages 39-45]
• Above Ground Portion of a Forbes Street House
  (Photograph: 89K) [top of page 46];
  Privy Vault on Cornet Street.
  (Photograph: 87K) [bottom of page 46]
• A View of Maurice Street
  (Photograph: 91K) [top of page 47];
  The Jones and Laughlin Steel Works.
  (Photograph: 137K) [bottom of page 47]
• Chart H. Detailed Data of Houses. [pages 48-56]
• Four Bedrooms Occupied by Four Families
  (Photograph: 90K) [top of page 57];
  Hydrant on Forbes Street.
  (Photograph: 116K) [bottom of page 57]
• Views Behind Forbes Street Houses.
  (Photograph: 85K) [left side of page 58];
  (Photograph: 105K) [right side of page 58]
• View of a Forbes Street Tenement. (Photograph: 175K) [page 59]

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