Women and the Everyday City: Public Space in San Francisco, 1890–1915

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WOMEN AND THE EVERYDAY CITY Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture Series KATHERINE SOLOMONSON AND ABIGAIL A. VAN SLYCK, Series Editors Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893–1943 ANNMARIE ADAMS Women and the Everyday City: Public Space in San Francisco, 1890–1915 JESSICA ELLEN SEWELL 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front ANDREW M. SHANKEN A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890–1960 ABIGAIL A. VAN SLYCK The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States CARLA YANNI WOMEN AND THE EVERYDAY CITY PUBLIC SPACE IN SAN FRANCISCO, 1890–1915 Jessica Ellen Sewell Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture Series University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London This book is published with assistance from the Margaret S. Harding Memorial Endowment, which honors the first director of the University of Minnesota Press. Portions of chapters 2 and 5 were originally published in Constructing Image, Identity, and Place: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture IX, edited by Alison K. Hoagland and Kenneth A. Breisch (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003); copyright 2003 by the University of Tennessee Press; reprinted with permission. Contemporary maps drawn by Austin Porter. Unless otherwise credited, photographs are from the author’s collection. Copyright 2011 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying , recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sewell, Jessica Ellen. Women and the everyday city : public space in San Francisco, 1890-1915 / Jessica Ellen Sewell. p. cm. — (Architecture, landscape, and American culture series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-6973-8 (hc : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8166-6974-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Architecture and women—California—San Francisco. 2. Public spaces—Social aspects—California—San Francisco—History—19th century. 3. Public spaces—Social aspects—California—San Francisco—History—20th century. 4. Women—California— San Francisco—Social conditions—19th century. 5. Women—California—San Francisco—Social conditions—20th century. I. Title. II. Title: Public space in San Francisco, 1890-1915. NA2543.W65S47 2011 711'.40820979461—dc22 2010032668 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 In memory of Ellen This page intentionally left blank ...