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

Resource Information

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Label

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

Title remainder

life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924

Statement of responsibility

Deborah Hopkinson

Creator

• Hopkinson, Deborah

Subject

• Immigrants
• Immigrants -- New York (State) | New York -- History
• Immigrants -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- Juvenile literature
• Juvenile works
• New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898
• New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951
• New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
• New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature
• New York (State) -- New York
• History
• Poor -- New York (State) | New York
• Poor -- New York (State) | New York -- Juvenile literature
• Social conditions
• Tenement houses
• Tenement houses
• Tenement houses -- New York (State) | New York -- Juvenile literature
• Poor

Genre

• Juvenile literature
• Juvenile works
• History

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

307.76/4/097471

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HV4046.N6

LC item number

H66 2003

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

pre adolescent