Shutting out the sky
Subtitle: life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1915
By: by Deborah Hopkinson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Orchard Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Urban poor -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile literature; Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Juvenile literature; Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile literature; Poor -- New York (State) -- New York; Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Tenement houses; New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature; New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951
Genres: Juvenile literature.
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.
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?