Main entry:

Williams, Marilyn T.

Title & Author:

Washing "the great unwashed" : public baths in urban America, 1840-1920 / Marilyn Thornton Williams.

Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©1991.

Description:

xiv, 190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Urban life and urban landscape series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-183) and index.
Origins of the public bath movement, 1840-1890 -- Public baths in the Progressive Era -- Tammany Hall versus reformers: the public baths of New York City -- Patrician mayors, Irish bosses, and "municipal housekeepers": the municipal baths of Boston and Chicago -- Philanthropy and Progressivism: the public baths of Philadelphia and Baltimore -- The American Association for promoting hygiene and public baths -- The gospel of cleanliness.

Summary:

"Washing the great unwashed examines the almost forgotten public bath movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--its origins, its leaders and their motives, and its achievements. Marilyn Williams surveys the development of the American obsession with cleanliness in the nineteenth century and discusses the public bath movement in the context of urban reform in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston"--Jacket

ISBN:

0814205372 (alk. paper)
9780814205372 (alk. paper)

Subject:

University of South Alabama
Public baths United States 19th century History.
Public baths United States 20th century History.
Baths history
Hygiene history
Urban Health history
Bains publics États-Unis 19e siècle Histoire.
Bains publics États-Unis 20e siècle Histoire.
Public baths
Schwimmbad
Openbare voorzieningen.
Badhuizen.
Steden.
Openbare gezondheidszorg.
Geschichte 1840-1920.
United States
USA

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Urban life and urban landscape series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 109927
Call No.: ID PLS RA605.W54; ID:94-B422
Status: Available