Shutting out the sky : : Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1924
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Coming to the golden land -- Tenements: shutting out the sky -- Settling in: greenhorns and boarders -- Everyone worked on -- On the streets: pushcarts, pickles, and play -- A new language, a new life -- Looking to the future: will it ever be different?
Photographs and text document the experiences of five individuals who came to live in the Lower East Side of New York City as children or young adults from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania at the turn of the twentieth century.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Orchard Books, 2003.
Year Published: 2003
Description: viii, 134 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 990
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0439375908 (lib. bdg.)
9780439375900 (lib. bdg.)
SUBJECTS
Tenement houses -- New York.
Poor -- New York.
Immigrants -- New York -- History.
Tenement houses.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951.