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I think the study you refer to is one touched on by a tour during the Society for the History of Cartography field trip in Chicago. Note though that this study was published in 1895, prior to the publication of Booth's maps. "These color coded maps were reproduced from a study published by Hull-House residents in 1895, titled Hull-House Maps and Papers: A Presentation of Nationalities and Wages in a Congested District of Chicago, Together wigh Comments and Essays on Problems Growing Out of the Social Conditions. The illustrate the ethnicity of a one-third square mile area just east of Hull-House in 1892. The boundaries of the area studied are Halsted Street on the west, Plk Street on the north, State Street on the east, and Twelfth Street (Roosevelt Road) on the south." "In the 1890's this area was one of the most congested in Chicago, if not the United States. ..." "In the Introduction to Hull-House Maps and Papers, settlement resident Agnes Holbrook provides information about the color colding of these maps. An effort was made to distinguish the 'groups forming different elements in social and industrial life,' therefore some groupscontained more than one nationality, while others were designated specifically by birthplace." Ron Whistance-Smith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Palsky" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 7:43 AM Subject: Re: ONLINE: Charles Booth's Maps Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-9 9 <fwd> > I was told that C. Booth's study was imitated for some other towns, in the > United States (Chicago ?) at the end of the century. Do you have > informations about that ? > Thank You >