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
PoorStaff AuthorsTenement housesSocial conditionsImmigrantsJuvenile literatureWhitman CollegeHistoryUrban poorSociology, urbanImmigrants, juvenile literatureHousingNew york (n.y.), social conditionsNew york (n.y.), historyPovertyPoverty, juvenile literatureNew york (n.y.), juvenile literature