Title: Shutting out the sky
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.
Subjects: 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 literature
Places: New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York
Time periods: 1865-1898, 1898-1951