An edition of Shutting out the sky (2003)

Shutting out the sky

life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924

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An edition of Shutting out the sky (2003)

Shutting out the sky

life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924

1st ed.

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  • ★★★★ 4.00 ·
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  • 45 Want to read
  • 11 Currently reading
  • 2 Have read

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
Pages
134

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Subjects
Poor, Staff Authors, Tenement houses, Social conditions, Immigrants, Juvenile literature, Whitman College, History, Urban poor, Sociology, urban, Immigrants, juvenile literature, Housing, New york (n.y.), social conditions, New york (n.y.), history, Poverty, Poverty, juvenile literature, New york (n.y.), juvenile literature
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New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York
Times
1865-1898, 1898-1951

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Shutting out the sky: life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924
2003, Orchard Books
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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 (p. 120-122) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
307.76/4/097471
Library of Congress
HV4046.N6 H66 2003, HV4046.N6H66 2003

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Pagination
viii, 134 p. :
Number of pages
134

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24765706M
ISBN 10
0439375908
ISBN 13
9780439375900
LCCN
2002044781
OCLC/WorldCat
51477151
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