Shutting out the sky
About this book
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.
Subjects
- history
- housing
- immigrants
- immigrants, juvenile literature
- juvenile literature
- new york (n.y.), history
- new york (n.y.), juvenile literature
- new york (n.y.), social conditions
- poor
- poverty
- poverty, juvenile literature
- social conditions
- sociology, urban
- staff authors
- tenement houses
- urban poor
- whitman college