Making our way : America at the turn of the century in the words of the poor and powerless / selected by William Loren Katz and Jacqueline Hunt Katz. Illustrated with photographs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Katz, William Loren.

Katz, Jacqueline Hunt.

Tehon, Atha.

Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor--United States--Juvenile literature.

Poor.

United States--Social conditions--1865-1918--Juvenile literature.

United States.

Social conditions.

United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.

Genre:

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

xviii, 170 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : The Dial Press, [1975]

Summary:

Fourteen first-person accounts of what life was like for the poor Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century. Includes stories of a teen-age girl working in a New York sweatshop, a Georgia sharecropper, a Lithuanian stockyard worker in Chicago, etc.

Contents:

Sadie Frowne, a sweatshop girl at sixteen.

Antanas Kaztaukis, from Lithuania to the Chicago stockyards.

An Anonymous farmer's wife.

Rocco Corresca, bootblack.

An Anonymous Georgia sharecropper.

An Anonymous Irish cook.

Ah-nen-la-de-ni, a Mohawk tribesman.

An Anonymous coal miner.

Nat Love, cowboy.

Lee Chew, Chinese American.

An Anonymous collar starcher.

Elias Garza, Mexican American.

An Anonymous policeman.

Mariner J. Kent, the making of a tramp.

The making of a tramp.

Notes:

"First Printing."

"Design by Atha Tehon"--t.p. verso.

"Jacket design by Robert Korn"--Dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-170).

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Making our way.

ISBN:

0803754426

9780803754423

OCLC:

1528999