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- The Sanitary Drainage of Houses and Towns, by George W. Waring Jr.
(Atlantic Monthly, 1875)
- A Great City
(Harper's Monthly, 1881A)
- An overview of issues facing great cities of the time.
- Home Construction: Foundations, by George Martin Huss
(Century Magazine, 1882A)
- Home Construction: Precautions Against Fire, by George Martin Huss
(Century Magazine, 1882B)
- Home Construction: Sanitation, by Charles F. Wingate
(Century Magazine, 1882B)
- Murder by Burial
(Century Magazine, 1882B)
- The hazards of graveyards to the public health.
- The Father of American Libraries
(Century Magazine, 1883B)
- The efforts of Benjamin Franklin and others to establish libraries in America.
- The Principles and Practice of House-Drainage, by George E. Waring Jr.
(Century Magazine, 1885A)
- Life in an American Boarding House (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1886)
- "The boarding house as a home is rarely a matter of choice, but it is the best [a married couple] can do to meet the difficulty of living in a country where the conditions of social life are less easy than elsewhere."
- The Western Art Movement, by Ripley Hitchcock
(Century Magazine, 1886B)
- A look at the proliferation of libraries and art galleries in the US.
- Flatting in America, by Deliverance Dingle(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1887)
- British ladies find living in an American "flat" to be quite an unusual experience!
- The Forgotten Millions: A Study of the Common American Mode of Life, by Charles W. Eliot
(Century Magazine, 1890B)
- An analysis of a small town as representative of the nation.
- Shopping in "The States"(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1890)
- An American shares a glimpse of America's great department stores, where payments whiz across the ceiling from clerk to cashier on a network of wires, and just about everyone chews gum...
- Western Modes of City Management, by Julian Ralph
(Harper's Monthly, 1892A)
- Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Methods of Sewage Disposal, by George E. Waring, Jr.
(Century Magazine, 1894A)
- Some Differences Between English and American Homes, by Elizabeth L. Banks (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1895)
- The English seem to believe that Americans know nothing of the comforts of life, while Americans believe they alone possess the secret of a happy home...
- "The Public Safety is the Supreme Law"
(Century Magazine, 1895B)
- The enforcement of sanitary laws in cities.
- Children's Libraries in America, by Charlotte O'Conor Eccles
(Windsor Magazine, 1903A)
- "Free public libraries are a distinctive feature of municipal life in America, and are used by all classes of the community to an extent unusual [in Britain]. In the United States such institutions often become social as well as literary centres." The author doubts that there will be such a demand for libraries in the UK as in the US, where "culture, if superficial, is wide."
- • See the States and Regions section for articles on specific cities and towns in the US.
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