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

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The work Shutting out the sky : life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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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

• trueHopkinson, Deborah

Subject

• trueImmigrants -- New York City -- History
• New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898
• New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951
• New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
• trueNew York City -- History -- 1865-1898
• trueNew York City -- History -- 1898-1951
• trueNew York City -- Social conditions
• Poor -- New York (State) | New York
• Immigrants -- New York (State) | New York -- History
• Tenement houses -- New York (State) | New York
• trueTenement-houses -- New York City
• Urban poor -- New York (State) | New York
• trueUrban poor people -- New York City
• truePoor people -- New York City

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

Award

Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2003

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

307.76/4/097471

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 5
• 8

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

pre adolescent