An edition of Shutting out the sky
(2003)
Shutting out the sky
life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1915
1st ed.
by Deborah Hopkinson
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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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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 literaturePlaces
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Shutting out the sky: life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1915
2003, Orchard Books
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- 1st ed.
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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?
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Includes bibliographical references.
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