Shutting out the sky : life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924 / Deborah Hopkinson.
Hopkinson, Deborah.
2003
HV4046.N6 H66 2003 (Mapit)
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Title Shutting out the sky : life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924 / Deborah Hopkinson.
Author Hopkinson, Deborah.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 0439375908 (lib. bdg.)
Imprint New York : Orchard Books, 2003.
Language English
Description viii, 134 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number HV4046.N6 H66 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 307.76/4/097471
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-122) and index.
Awards Jane Addams Honor, 2004.
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