A City for Children : women, architecture, and the charitable landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950. / txt
Marta Gutman.
- ill. ; plans ; 24cm. book
- Historical studies of urban America .
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Contents: List of Illustrations ix -- Acknowledgments xv -- New ideas from old things in Oakland 1 -- The charitable landscape in California: first imprints in San Francisco 35 -- The ladies intervene: repurposed and purpose-built in Temescal 71 -- The West Oakland home: the "Noble work for a life saving" of Rebecca McWade 109 -- The saloon that became a school: free kindergartens in Northern California 143 -- The art and craft of settlement work in Oakland Point 177 -- "The ground must belong to the city": playgrounds and recreation centers in Oakland's neighborhoods 213 -- Orphaned in Oakland: institutional life during the progressive era 247 -- Childhood on the color line in West Oakland: day nurseries during the interwar years 291 -- Epilogue 331 -- Oral Histories and Interviews 351 -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes 325 -- Notes 355 -- Index 435 -- Illustrations : 1.1 West Oakland Free Kindergarten, Oakland 1895 / 2 -- 1.2 San Antonio Creek, California, from a trigonometrical survey under the direction of A. D. Bache, United States Coastal Survey 1857 / 5 -- 1.3 Map of Oakland, recorded and surveyed by Jeremiah E. Whitcher 1860 / 6 -- 1.4 Steam train on Cedar Street, Oakland 1880s / 10 -- 1.5 Oakland Long Wharf viewed from Goat Island in the San Francisco Bay, October 1886 11 -- 1.6 Butler and Bowman, real estate advertisement for Eighth Street tract, Oakland 1876 / 12 -- 1.7 Albert Miller house, Oakland, undated photograph / 13 -- 1.8 Albert Miller house, first floor plan, sketched by Christian (C. O. G.) Miller in 1943 / 14 -- 1.9 African American girl skipping rope near the West Oakland Free Kindergarten 1912 / 16 -- 1.10 Railroad Exchange Hotel, Oakland 1902 / 17 -- 1.11 Davidson / Patterson cottages, Oakland 1997 / 18 -- 1.12 Davidson / Patterson cottage, first floor plan 1996 / 19 -- 1.13 Jackson Street looking toward Lake Merritt, Oakland 1890s / 21 -- 1.14 Charitable landscape for children, Oakland / 26 -- 1.15 House lifting, Oakland 1901 / 31 -- 1.16 Seventh Street, Oakland 1896 / 32 -- 2.1 "The Hearth-Stone of the Poor-Waste Steam Not Wasted," 1876 / 43 -- 2.2 "Alms House, Blackwell's Island, New York, As Seen Looking North-West," 1852 / 47 -- 2.3 Orphan Asylum in Bloomingdale, New York, c. 1840 / 49 -- 2.4 Robert Durkin 1859 / 51 -- 2.5 San Francisco Industrial School viewed from the San Jose Road 1865 / 53 -- 2.6 "Protestant Orphan Asylum, San Francisco," 1870 / 57 -- 2.7 Membership certificate for the Female Charitable Asylum, Newburyport, Massachusetts / 58 -- 2.8 Dormitory at the Chicago Nursery and Half Orphan Asylum 1899 / 60 -- 2.9 Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, San Francisco, opened in 1855 / 62 -- 2.10 "Tadies" Protection and Relief Society Building Franklin Street, from the West, San Francisco, " 1870 / 65 -- 3.1 Broadway looking south toward the harbor from Thirteenth Street, Oakland 1873 / 74 -- 3.2 The Chicago Fire-Ladies Distributing Clothes to the Sufferers of Both Sexes From a Sketch by Joseph Becker 1871 / 78 -- 3.3 Mills Hall, Mills College, Oakland 1870 / 79 -- 3.4 Children's Home (formerly George Beckwith's house), Temescal 1883 / 85 -- 3.5 "Prayer Time in the Nursery, Five Points House of Industry," New York City, photograph by Jacob A. Riis, c. 1880 / 86 -- 3.6 Children's Home, reconstructed ground and upper floor plans, c. 1878 / 88 -- 3.7 Children's Home, reconstructed building section, c. 1878 / 89 -- 3.8 Home for Aged Women in Temescal, 1898 / 92 -- 3.9 California Architect and Building News, front cover, May 1883 / 94 -- 3.10 Home for Aged Women, 1882 / 97 -- 3.11 Home for Aged Women, first- and second-floor plans, 1882 / 98 -- 3.12 Home for Aged Women, longitudinal and transverse sections, 1882 / 100 -- 3.13 Ladies Relief Society, site plan, 1882 / 101 -- 3.14 Children's Home, 1898 / 105 -- 3.15 Ladies' Relief Society, site plan, 1911-12 / 107 -- 4.1 Whittier State School, Whittier, California, 1890 / 111 -- 4.2 Rebecca McWade, undated photograph / 113 -- 4.3 Rebecca McWade's house, Oakland / 114 -- 4.4 West Oakland Home, site development history, 1883-1904 / 119 -- 4.5 West Oakland Home, Oakland, 1891 / 120 -- 4.6 Prescott Grammar School, Oakland, 1893 / 121 -- 4.7 "Cradle of Tragedy Substitute for European Revolving Cradle," San Francisco Babies' Aid 1916 / 124 -- 4.8 "Little Laborers of New York Work of the Children's Aid Society," 1873 / 127 -- 4.9 West Cottage at the Preston School of Industry, lone, California, 1916 / 131 -- 4.10 Boys and girls at the West Oakland Home, 1890s / 139 -- 5.1 Classroom at the West Oakland Free Kindergarten, c. 1895 / 145 -- 5.2 Kate Douglas Wiggin The Author in Her Kindergartening Days"), undated photograph / 147 -- 5.3 Silver Street Free Kindergarten and Training School, San Francisco, c. 1880 / 151 -- 5.4 View of Pine Street near the corner of Chase Street, Oakland, photograph by Wilson Ellis, 1934 / 156 -- 5.5 West Oakland Free Kindergarten, context map, 1889 / 159 -- 5.6 Davidson/Patterson saloon and rooming house, Oakland, 1997 / 160 -- 5.7 Mint Saloon, Oakland, undated photograph / 161 -- 5.8 Directors of the Woman's Congress Association of the Pacific Coast, San Francisco, photograph by Louis Thors, 1895 / 169 -- 5.9 Classroom at the West Oakland Free Kindergarten, Oakland, c. 1894 / 173 -- 6.1 Garment class, West Oakland Settlement, 1900 / 178 -- 6.2 Almira Huntington's house, Oakland, 1997 / 185 -- 6.3 Hull House, Chicago, original mansion and addition 1891 / 187 -- 6.4 West Oakland Settlement and New Century Club, site development history 1895-1910 / 189 -- 6.5 View of the West Oakland Settlement 1900 / 190 -- 6.6 Elizabeth Watt and the Mizpah Sewing Class at the West Oakland Settlement 1900 / 195 -- 6.7 "A Quiet Hour" at the Working Girls' Recreation Club, 1900 / 197 -- 6.8 "The Living-Room: Much in Little Space," 1881 / 198 -- 6.9 Boys' Club at the West Oakland Settlement, 1900 / 199 -- 6.10 Boys' Club at the West Oakland Settlement, 1900 / 200 -- 6.11 "Practice Class in the Oakland Cooking School," 1900 / 206 -- 7.1 Playground at Tompkins Grammar School, Oakland, 1910 / 214 -- 7.2 Mothers' Charity Club, Oakland, undated photograph / 215 -- 7.3 "Presenting the Extreme of International Adjustment," Vacation School at the Tompkins Grammar School, 1900 / 218 -- 7.4 "Our Pond, Oakland, Cal.," 1884 / 219 -- 7.5 Boys' Club using the free library at the New Century Club, Oakland, 1902 / 229 -- 7.6 "The Cooking School of the New Century Club," 1902 / 230 -- 7.7 The New Century Club's "Committee Room," 1902 / 231 -- 7.8 Ebell Society, after 1906 / 233 -- 7.9 "Home of the New Century Club," after 1906 / 234 -- 7.10 Gymnastics class at the New Century Club, 1910 / 236 -- 7.11 New Century Club Recreation Center Playground, photograph by Wilson Ellis, 1934 / 239 -- 7.12 Tompkins Grammar School and the Oakland social settlement, site plan, 1910 / 241 -- 7.13 Women distributing pure milk in front of the West Oakland Free Kindergarten, c. 1912 / 246 -- 8.1 "Little Girls at Dumbbell Exercise," City Hospital and Orphanage (under the direction of the Grey Nuns of the Cross), Ogdensburg, New York, 1903 / 250 -- 8.2 Amy Steinhardt, photograph by Arnold Genthe, c. 1905 / 256 -- 8.3 West Oakland Home, Oakland, context map, 1910 / 262 -- 8.4 Home Club and Smith Cottages, Oakland, undated photograph / 264 -- 8.5 Florence Cottage, Oakland, 1902 / 265 -- 8.6 Cottage for Babies and Small Children, Oakland 1916 / 266 -- 8.7 Playground for toddlers at the West Oakland Home, after 1904 / 267 -- 8.8 West Oakland Home, Oakland, 1916 / 269 -- 8.9 Matron and children at the West Oakland Home, Oakland, 1920s / 270 -- 8.10 Campers from the West Oakland Home at Crow's Canyon, California, 1920s / 270 -- 8.11 Mary Crocker Cottage, Oakland, 1930 / 271 -- 8.12 Oakland Technical tigh schol, photograph by Hary Courtight, c. 1917 / 273 -- 8.13 Oakland Technical High School seen from the air, undated photograph by Harry Courtright / 275 -- 8.14 Ladies' Relief Society, Oakland, site plan, 1928 / 276 -- 8.15 Mollie and Berta Lee Cooley outside the De Fremery Nursery, 1925 / 278 -- 8.16 Lois and Belva Cooley outside the Children's Home, 1926 / 279 -- 8.17 Studio One Art Center, formerly the Children's Home, Oakland, 2001 / 280 -- 8.18 Children's Home, reconstructed ground and second floor plans, 1930 / 280 -- 8.19 Boys' dining room at St. Joseph's Orphanage, Nashua (New Hampshire State Charitable and Correctional Institutions), c. 1900 / 284 -- 8.20 Girls' dormitory at St. Joseph's Orphanage, Nashua (New Hampshire State Charitable and Correctional Institutions), c. 1900 / 286 -- 8.21 Cooley sisters and their father at Mosswood Park, Oakland, 1929 / 287 -- 8.22 Cooley sisters in front of the De Fremery Nursery, 1932 / 288 -- 9.1 Fannie Wall Children's Home and Day Nursery, Oakland 2001 / 292 -- 9.2 Day nursery at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893 / 297 -- 9.3 St. Vincent's Day Home, Oakland 1996 / 299 -- 9.4 Children gathered on the front lawn of St. Vincent's Day Home 1922 / 304 -- 9.5 Easter Sunday at Beth Eden Baptist Church, Oakland, c. 1901 / 305 -- 9.6 Ku Klux Klan marching in the Independence Day parade, Richmond, California 1924 / 307 -- 9.7 Fanny Wall and Lucinda B. Tighman, undated photographs / 309 -- 9.8 Fannie Wall Children's Home and Day Nursery, Oakland, undated photograph / 313 -- 9.9 Birthday party at the Fannie Wall Children's Home 1940s / 314 -- 9.10 Mary C. Jackson Netherland at her house, Oakland 1940s / 316 -- 9.11 St. Vincent's Day Home and Fannie Wall Children's Home, Oakland, site plan 1951 / 317 -- 9.12 Linden Street ("Colored") Branch of the YWCA, Oakland, undated photograph / 318 -- 9.13 Board of directors of the Fannie Wall Home, undated photograph / 322 -- 9.14 Ceremony at the Fannie Wall Children's Home 1948 / 324 -- 9.15 St. Vincent's Day Home after slum clearance 1960s / 326 -- 9.16 St. Vincent's Day Home, Oakland, site plan 1972 / 327 --
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