The house on Henry Street

by Lillian D. Wald

In the making of the book, much help has come from these same friends, and I should be quite overwhelmed with the debt I owe did I not feel that all of us who have worked together have worked not only for each other but for the cause of human progress; that is the beginning and should be the end of the House on Henry Street.

Lillian D. Wald.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	The East Side Two Decades Ago	[1]
II.	Establishing the Nursing Service	[26]
III.	The Nurse and the Community	[44]
IV.	Children and Play	[66]
V.	Education and the Child	[97]
VI.	The Handicapped Child	[117]
VII.	Children Who Work	[135]
VIII.	The Nation’s Children	[152]
IX.	Organizations within the Settlement	[169]
X.	Youth	[189]
XI.	Youth and Trades Unions	[201]
XII.	Weddings and Social Halls	[216]
XIII.	Friends of Russian Freedom	[229]
XIV.	Social Forces	[249]
XV.	Social Forces, Continued	[270]
XVI.	New Americans and Our Policies	[286]
	Index	[313]

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

	PAGE
The House on Henry Street	[Frontispiece]
Etching by Abraham Phillips
Lillian D. Wald and Mary M. Brewster in Hospital Uniform, 1893	[6]
With Prayer-shawl and Phylactery	[22]
Etching by Abraham Phillips
The Nurse in the Tenement	[28]
A Short Cut over the Roofs of the Tenements	[52]
And their Ecstasy at the Sight of a Wonderful Dogwood Tree	[78]
It Has Been Called the “Bunker Hill” of Playgrounds	[82]
The Children Play on Our Roof	[82]
The Kindergarten Children Learn the Reality of the Things they Sing About	[90]
Uses of the Back Yard in One of the Branches of the Henry Street Settlement	[162]
Here and There Are Still Found Reminders of Old New York	[170]
Etching by Abraham Phillips
Esther	[182]
Drawing by Esther J. Peck
The Neighborhood Playhouse	[186]
Drawing by Abraham Phillips
In a Club-room	[192]
Drawing by Abraham Phillips
After the Long Day	[204]
Drawing by Abraham Phillips
An Incident in the Historical Pageant on Henry Street, Commemorating the Twentieth Anniversary of the Settlement	[214]
The Older Generation	[218]
Etching by Abraham Phillips
Prince Kropotkin	[234]
Babuschka, Little Grandmother	[242]
The Synagogues Are Everywhere—Imposing or Shabby-looking Buildings	[254]
Etching by Abraham Phillips
A Mother in Israel	[268]
Etching by Abraham Phillips
The Dramatic Club Presented “The Shepherd”	[272]
A Region of Overcrowded Homes	[298]
At Ellis Island There is a Stream of Inflowing Life	[308]
Photograph by Louis Hines