Shutting out the sky
Subtitle: life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924
By: Deborah Hopkinson
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Orchard Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780439375900
Subjects: Poor; Staff Authors; Tenement houses; Social conditions; Immigrants; Juvenile literature; Whitman College; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-122) and index.
Table of contents: title: Coming to the golden land --; title: Tenements: shutting out the sky --; title: Settling in: greenhorns and boarders --; title: Everyone worked on --; title: On the streets: pushcarts, pickles, and play --; title: A new language, a new life --; title: Looking to the future: will it ever be different?