Focuses on America's urban immigrant history in New Yor ... An Irish Family in America, featuring the first permanent exhibit about Irish immigration to New York City is now open!
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in the other are those whose employment is illegal, not because they are children, but because the tenements in which they live do not fulfill the sanitary requirements necessary for a license. The problem is complicated by the vast extent of the home work system in New York City.
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Mary Van Kleeck "Child Labor in New York City Tenements" ... Appendix: "The Foreign Immigrant in New York City" ... Kate Holladay Claghorn "The Foreign Immigrant in New York City" Part 1 of 2...
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Over 10,000 people lived in the building between 1870 and 1915. The stories of many are presented here. ... [ Urban Log Cabin | Excavation | Tenement VR | History ] ... [ Thirteen Online ]
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In New York City, ... The legislation that was to have the greatest impact on the physical character of #97 was the Tenement House Act of 1901. The result of rapidly deteriorating conditions and the alarm that they bred among middle-class reformers, the Act basically outlawed the construction of new tenements on 25-foot wide lots,
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Be a little careful, please! The hall is dark and you might stumble over the children pitching pennies back there. Not that it would hurt them; kicks and cuffs are their daily diet. They have little else. ... A flight of stairs. All the fresh air that ever enters these stairs comes from the hall-door that is forever slamming,
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Congress with its suicidal laissez-faire policy as regards immigration, by permitting Europe to send us any kind of immigrants it pleases, is directly responsible for the over-crowded tenements of the city. In round numbers, a million immigrants a year arrive at the port of New York.
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Little Italy's tenements are a mix of pre-Law, Old Law and New Law models, the different categories indicating their dates of construction and, accordingly, their varying designs. ... Until the mid-nineteenth century, New York City's poor lived in squatter shacks or rundown older buildings divided up into small cubicles.
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Click here for; Reviews of digital cameras at; DigitalAdvisor ... Berenice Abbott; Court of the First Model Tenements in New York City, 361-365 East 71st Street c. 1935-39 ... Court of the First Model Tenements in New York City, 361-365 East 71st Street...
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COURT OF THE FIRST MODEL TENEMENTS IN NEW YORK CITY; 361-365 71st Street, 1325-1343 First Avenue, 360-364 72nd Street; MARCH 16, 1936. ABBOTT FILE 76 ... Museum of the City of New York · 1220 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10029 · 212.534.167 ... New York City Pictures and Photographs...
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