A City for Children : women, architecture, and the charitable landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950. / Marta Gutman. txt

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Gutman, Marta

Idioma: Inglés Series Historical studies of urban AmericaChicago : Chicago Press , 2014Descripción: ill. ; plans ; 24cmTipo de contenido:

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9780226311289 (cloth : alk. paper)

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HV99.O25 G88 2014

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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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American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the migration boom at the end of the nineteenth century permanently changed the urban fabric of these newly diverse, plural metropolises.

In A City for Children , Marta Gutman focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings in Oakland, California, to make the city a better place for children. She introduces us to the women who were determined to mitigate the burdens placed on working-class families by an indifferent industrial capitalist economy. Often without the financial means to build from scratch, women did not tend to conceive of urban land as a blank slate to be wiped clean for development. Instead, Gutman shows how, over and over, women turned private houses in Oakland into orphanages, kindergartens, settlement houses, and day care centers, and in the process built the charitable landscape--a network of places that was critical for the betterment of children, families, and public life. The industrial landscape of Oakland, riddled with the effects of social inequalities and racial prejudices, is not a neutral backdrop in Gutman's story but an active player. Spanning one hundred years of history, A City for Children provides a compelling model for building urban institutions and demonstrates that children, women, charity, and incremental construction, renovations, alterations, additions, and repurposed structures are central to the understanding of modern cities.

Index

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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 --

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

List of illustrations(p. ix)
Acknowledgments(p. xv)
1 New Ideas from Old Things in Oakland(p. 1)
2 The Landscape of Charity in California: First Imprints in San Francisco(p. 35)
3 The Ladies Intervene: Repurposed and Purpose-Built in Temescal(p. 71)
4 The West Oakland Home: The "Noble Work for a Life Saving" of Rebecca McWade(p. 109)
5 The Saloon That Became a School: Free Kindergartens in Northern California(p. 143)
6 The Art and Craft of Settlement Work in Oakland Point(p. 177)
7 "The Ground Must Belong to the City": Playgrounds and Recreation Centers in Oakland's Neighborhoods(p. 213)
8 Orphaned in Oakland: Institutional Life during the Progressive Era(p. 247)
9 Childhood on the Color Line in West Oakland: Day Nurseries during the Interwar Years(p. 291)
Epilogue(p. 331)
Oral Histories and Interviews(p. 351)
Abbreviations Used in the Notes(p. 353)
Notes(p. 355)
Index(p. 435)

Reseñas proporcionadas por Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Architectural and urban historian Gutman (CUNY) adds to the now voluminous literature on the history of childhood in the US, but her study departs from previous ones in two main ways. First, Gutman focuses her analysis on the spaces children inhabited, investigating how orphanages and their surroundings reflected changing power relations between men and women and among different classes and ethnicities. Second, her study presents a complex social history of Oakland, California--most specifically, the ethnically diverse, working-class neighborhood of West Oakland, proximate to factories and the Pullman railroad yards. Synthesizing a rich blend of methodologies and primary sources, Gutman presents a meticulous investigation of how institutional spaces socialized orphans to follow "useful," gendered, middle-class narratives for life. At the same time, she underscores how supervising children's charities provided upper-middle-class clubwomen a means to leave domestic confines and enter the male-dominated world of social policy making. A great strength is Gutman's ability to contextualize local events with larger intellectual currents within the US and abroad. Regrettably, the book contains no bibliography, but it does provide 78 dense pages of footnotes. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. --Alan Richard Michelson, University of Washington Libraries

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Marta Gutman is professor of architectural and urban history at the Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York and a member of the doctoral faculty of art history at The Graduate Center, City College of New York. She is also a licensed architect.

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