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Blue Violet
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| | Posted on Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 1:35 am: | 
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I don't know if it's been mentioned here before, but Charles Booth's Survey of Life & Labor of London has been digitised by the London School of Economics and is available at http://booth.lse.ac.uk/ He did his tours of Whitechapel in the first part of 1898 & it's interesting to see what had changed in the 10 years since the murders. But some things evidentally hadn't changed as Booth grouses repeatedly about "the notorious Jack McCarthy of Dorset St." Except by this time he owned a goodly chunk of both Dorset St. & Little Paternoster Row as well as a lodging house on Thrawl St. Slum lords are eternal, I guess.  |
Chris Phillips
Chief Inspector
Username: Cgp100
Post Number: 666
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 5:57 pm: |
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The "Charles Booth Online Archive" seems to be a mine of potentially useful information.
Can anyone tell me to what extent the archive (offline at the LSE as well as online) has been explored by Ripperologists?
The online resource is wonderful, but I don't feel I've got entirely to grips with the search engine, and I'm not convinced that "Every person interviewed by the investigators has been listed in the catalogue of original survey records", seeing that the Mrs Bunton whose interview is shown as an example on the site doesn't turn up in response to a search!
Anyhow, to give an example, with regard to Kosminski's relatives, items like this look potentially useful:
A19, pp33-52
Schedule of the house to house enquiry of tailors.
Contains name of tailor, address, class of work, number of male and female employees, general remarks, October 1888.
(Again, curiously, this doesn't show up under an "exact phrase" search under "house to house".)
If anyone has experience of using the archive, I'd be interested to hear about it.
Chris Phillips
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Chris Phillips
Chief Inspector
Username: Cgp100
Post Number: 669
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 04, 2005 - 5:22 am: |
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I'm not convinced that "Every person interviewed by the investigators has been listed in the catalogue of original survey records", seeing that the Mrs Bunton whose interview is shown as an example on the site doesn't turn up in response to a search!
I enquired about this, and was told that this was because the name had been read two different ways - apparently it had been indexed as "Bunten".
Chris Phillips
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