An edition of Shutting out the sky: life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1915 (2003)

Shutting out the sky

life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1915

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An edition of Shutting out the sky: life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1915 (2003)

Shutting out the sky

life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1915

1st ed.

by

  • ★ 1.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 18 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
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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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Publisher
Orchard Books
Language
English

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Subjects

Poor, Immigrants, Tenement houses, Social conditions, Urban poor, Juvenile literature, History, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12

Places

New York (State), New York, New York (N.Y.)

Times

1865-1898, 1898-1951
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Cover of: Shutting out the sky
Shutting out the sky: life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1915
2003, Orchard Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Shutting out the sky
Shutting out the sky: life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924
2003, Orchard Books
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of 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?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
New York
Genre
Juvenile literature.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
307.76/4/097471
Library of Congress
HV4046.N6 H66 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3567029M
ISBN 10
0439375908
LCCN
2002044781
OCLC/WorldCat
51477151
Library Thing
1305102
Goodreads
25353

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