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Through historical photos, students explore what life was like for poor immigrants living in tenements at the turn of the century. ... compare and contrast living in tenement apartments to their own living conditions. ... Ask how apartments are similar to the tenements. Write the differences and similarities on chart paper.
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artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2314/
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How the Other Half Lives; Jacob Riis' classic expose of tenement living conditions on the Lower East Side during the late 19th century. ... The Tenement Museum has researched 97 Orchard Street extensively, but its collections contain relatively little information about the history of other tenements and buildings.
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www.tenement.org/research.html
www.tenement.org/research.html
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Improvements in sanitation intended to better living conditions instead worked to the disadvantage of the working-class and poor. While the introduction of pure Croton Water vastly enhanced sanitation for the middle and upper classes, ... Then, the front half of the lot was developed with five-or six-story tenements.
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www.tenement.org/Encyclopedia/housing_options.htm
www.tenement.org/Encyclopedia/housing_options.htm
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Workers lived in poorly maintained and cramped apartment houses known as tenements. Often, as many as a dozen people lived in one apartment. Many children and adults shared one bed. People slept in shifts. While one worker was at work, another would sleep in his or her bed.
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Regarding the apartment's floor space, I read in an encyclopedia that "Edo Period tenements were cramped because households averaged four members. "I was left with the impression that the writer of the article had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
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www.lian.com/TANAKA/englishpapers/tenement.htm
www.lian.com/TANAKA/englishpapers/tenement.htm
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Directions: the following question is based on the accompanying documents (1- 8). Some of these documents have been edited for the purposes of these exercises. ... What does this cartoon show about working conditions? ... What does this floor plan show about living conditions in the tenements that housed immigrant workers?
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consequently I am well acquainted with the cellars and single-room tenements in the town. ... The districts from which we have the most fever cases are the worst in sanitary conditions.” ... In some of these places I found privies, curiously contrived under stairs and bedrooms, and close adjoining the living rooms; but,
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Centennial Plaza, Tower at Centennial, Centennial Court, The Court, Centennial Hi-Rise Apartments, Apartment review, Rate your apartment building, Rate your landlord, Seattle downtown living,, Apartments in downtown Seattle, Bad landlords, Tenant law in Seattle, Landlord/tenant disputes,, Faulty plumbing, Slum-lords,
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www.truth-or-consequences.com/badder_business_bureau/centennial_tower_apex_realty/index.html
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From `The Irish in America' by John Francis Maguire, 1868 ... It is hard enough for the honest thrifty working man to hold his own in the great towns of America, for rents are high, and living is dear, and the cost of clothes and other necessaries is enormous; but when the work fails, or stops, terrible indeed is his position.
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