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

Title: Shutting out the sky : life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924 / by Deborah Hopkinson.
Author: Hopkinson, Deborah.
Publication: New York : Orchard Books, c2003.

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Lower East Side Heritage Collection (Seward Park Branch)

Description

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

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.

Subjects

Tenement houses
Urban poor > New York (State) > New York
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1865-1898
Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > History
Tenement houses > New York (State) > New York
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1898-1951
Poor > New York (State) > New York

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

J 307.76 H

ISBN

0439375908 (lib. bdg.)
9780439375900 (lib. bdg.)

LCCN

2002044781

OCLC

51477151

Author

Hopkinson, Deborah.

Title

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

Imprint

New York : Orchard Books, c2003.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Lower East Side Heritage Collection (Seward Park Branch)

Research Call Number

J 307.76 H

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