Shutting out the sky, life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924, Deborah Hopkinson
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Label
Shutting out the sky, life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924, Deborah Hopkinson
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Shutting out the sky
Responsibility statement
Deborah Hopkinson
Sub title
life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924
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
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?
Target audience
pre adolescent
Classification
Creator
Subject
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Juvenile literature
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Juvenile literature
- Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile literature
- Tenement houses -- Juvenile literature
- Urban poor -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile literature
- Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Juvenile literature
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature
- Poor -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile literature
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Subject8
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Juvenile literature
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Juvenile literature
- Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile literature
- Tenement houses -- Juvenile literature
- Urban poor -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile literature
- Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Juvenile literature
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature
- Poor -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile literature