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Stephen Elliott Kramer
Best remembered for a detailed early-20th-century portrait of urban America, this writer helped map the character, industry, and history of major U.S. cities for a general audience.
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Great Cities of the United States Historical, Descriptive, Commercial, Industrial
by Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth, Stephen Elliott Kramer
About the author
Stephen Elliott Kramer is a little-documented American author best known as the co-author, with Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth, of Great Cities of the United States: Historical, Descriptive, Commercial, Industrial. The book was published in 1916 and presents a broad survey of major American cities, blending history, description, and accounts of commerce and industry.
Because reliable biographical material on him is scarce in the sources I could confirm, only a small outline of his life is clear. His lasting presence today comes mainly through that surviving work, which has been preserved by major libraries and made available in digital editions for modern readers.
For listeners interested in overlooked nonfiction from the early 1900s, his writing offers a window into how American cities were introduced and interpreted for readers of that era.