The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. Together with a Special Report on Domestic Service. Publications of the University of Pennsylvania Series in Political Economy and Public Law, No. 14.
Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia, 1899.
First edition, first printing. xx, 520, viii pp. with eight advertising pages at rear. Illustrated with 2 foldout maps depicting Seventh Ward, one in color. Bound in later black buckram titled in gilt on spine, corrective label over date, top edge marbled. Near Fine with light wear to covers and several white marks to rear board. Short repaired tear to upper edge of first 6 leaves, several small waterstains and smudges to same. Short splits and misfold to center foldline of color map. Ownership signature of sociologist Adelaide M. Cromwell to front free endpaper.
The first edition of the first sociological study of a black community in the United States. W.E.B. Du Bois spent months interviewing members of 2,500 households in Philadelphia's Seventh Ward and synthesized his research into a monumental work as impassioned as it was methodical. Du Bois was assisted in his work by Isabel Eaton, who focused on women in domestic service. This copy was owned by Adelaide M. Cromwell, also an influential sociologist and professor. She was the first Black teacher at Smith College and went on to teach at Boston University for more than 30 years.
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