1 / 10

New York Tenements

New York Tenements. Kevin Rodriguez Tommy LeConche. Article synopsis. Who? Where? When? Why? How? What?. Historical overview. -A huge number of immigrants follow each other in rapid succession

viveca
Download Presentation

New York Tenements

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. New York Tenements Kevin Rodriguez Tommy LeConche

  2. Article synopsis • Who? • Where? • When? • Why? • How? • What?

  3. Historical overview • -A huge number of immigrants follow each other in rapid succession • -300 families composed of 1424 individuals. Nationality of Families: 244 German, 16 Irish, 11 American, 13 Hungarian, 6 Polish, 4 Russian, 2 Bohemian, 1 English, 1 Dutch, and 2 Chinese • - Between 1881 and 1910, 1,562,000 Jewish emigrants arrived in America, most of them settling on the Lower East Side • - Poor immigrants who came to New York City during the mid-1800s into the early 1900s usually lived in the tenement district amongst crime, filth, and disease

  4. Tenements

  5. Tenements

  6. Conditions

  7. Conditions

  8. People living in tenements

  9. People living in tenements

  10. Works Cited • Bial, Raymond, Tenement: Immigrant Life on the Lower East Side (Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston, 2002), 11. • Elsing, William T. "The Immigrants." Life in New York Tenement Houses. N.p.: n.p., n.d. N. pag. Print. • "The History Box Presents: New York Tenement Life." The History Box Presents: New York Tenement Life. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Feb. 2014. • "Tenements." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 23 Feb. 2014.

More Related