Shutting out the sky : life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924 Deborah Hopkinson

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hopkinson, Deborah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban poor--New York (State)--New York--Juvenile literature.

Urban poor.

Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--History--Juvenile literature.

Immigrants.

Tenement houses--New York (State)--New York--Juvenile literature.

Tenement houses.

Poor--New York (State)--New York.

Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--History.

New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--Juvenile literature.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions.

New York (N.Y.)--History--1865-1898.

New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951.

Physical Description:

viii, 134 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Orchard Books, 2003.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-122) and index.

Local Notes:

HSP credit line -- Leonard Covello Papers.

ISBN:

0439375908 (lib. bdg.)

OCLC:

51477151