The City That Was: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The City That Was, credited to Stephen Smith, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The City That Was by Stephen Smith. Read in English by David Wales This 1911 history of the public health revolution that transformed New York City in the nineteenth century is also about every city and town of the world and the sanitary challenges that each encountered. Stephen Smith (1823-1922) was an American surgeon and a pioneer in public health. “The story of a great life-saving social revolution, the mightiest in the nineteenth century and one of the most momentous in the history of civilization, is told here for the first time. It is told from the standpoint of the transformation of the City of New York, by a chief actor in the event.” Chapter four, New York The Unclean, is the heart of this work. ( Publisher's Note and David Wales)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The City That Was
• Author credits: Stephen Smith
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 3:53:03

Catalogue topics

• New York
• poverty
• the poor
• nineteenth century
• tenements
• sanitation
• public health
• disease eradication

Track guide

1. 00 - Publisher's Note — 3:12
2. 01 - A Blind Metropolis And Her Dying Children — 7:05
3. 02 - A Great Awakening In England — 7:32
4. 03 - The Awakening In America — 20:18
5. 04 - New York The Unclean Part 1 — 39:08
6. 05 - New York The Unclean Part 2 — 38:17
7. 06 - New York The Unclean Part 3 — 48:08
8. 07 - Victory — 6:39
9. 08 - The Legal Work of Dorman Bridgeman Eaton — 27:23
10. 09 - The Occult Power Of Filth — 31:56
11. 10 - A Closing Word — 3:25

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