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Jeanne Daniels Carpenter

Best known today for co-authoring a practical early 20th-century guide to city sanitation, this little-documented writer is connected with a book that explored how American cities handled garbage, sewage, ashes, and street refuse. Her work offers a clear window into the everyday public-health challenges of urban life a century ago.

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Municipal housecleaning : the methods and experiences of American cities in collecting and disposing of their municipal wastes—ashes, rubbish, garbage, manure, sewage, and street refuse

Municipal housecleaning : the methods and experiences of American cities in collecting and disposing of their municipal wastes—ashes, rubbish, garbage, manure, sewage, and street refuse

by William Parr Capes, Jeanne Daniels Carpenter

About the author

Jeanne Daniels Carpenter is credited as the co-author, with William Parr Capes, of Municipal Housecleaning, a book published in 1918. The book examines how American cities collected and disposed of waste, including garbage, sewage, ashes, manure, and street refuse.

Reliable biographical information about her appears to be scarce in the sources I could confirm. Because of that, it is safest to describe her through the work itself: she is remembered chiefly for helping produce a detailed, practical study of municipal sanitation during a period when modern public health and city services were rapidly developing.

For listeners interested in urban history, civic reform, or the nuts and bolts of how cities actually worked, her surviving book has real appeal. It captures a moment when waste removal and street cleaning were not just routine services, but major public concerns tied to health, efficiency, and everyday life.