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Tenement Housing
Apartment building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1839, the first New York City tenement was built, housing mainly poor immigrants. More tenements followed suit. Near the 1860s, tenement squares were popping up quite frequently.
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
The Tenement Museum focuses on America's urban immigrant history. The Museum's site features program information, directions, hours and online tickets and reservations.
Tenement Museum : History | Thirteen/WNET New York
The Tenement As History And Housing by Ruth Limmer and Andrew S. Dolkart [ The Lower East Side | Overcrowding | 96 Orchard St. | Old Law Of 1867]
ARTSEDGE: Understanding Tenement Life
It wasn't until the 1901 Tenement Housing Act was passed that better construction of housing, as well as lighting, ventilation, and toilet facilities, were standardized and living ...
tenement definition | Dictionary.com
tenement housing ... noun . 1. Also called tenement house. a run-down and often overcrowded apartment ...
Tenement Museum : Urban Log Cabin | Thirteen/WNET New York
The Urban Log Cabin Over ten thousand people lived at 97 Orchard Street between the years 1870 and 1915. You may visit some of them, like the 1915 Rogarshevskys seen below, by ...
The Housing Problem in Great Cities
Commissioner Keller, head of the Department of Charities of New York, bore eloquent testimony in confirmation of the foregoing state of tenement housing.
Tenement housing conditions in the twentieth ward, Chicago. Report of ...
Tenement housing conditions in the twentieth ward, Chicago. Report of Civics Committee of Chicago Women's Club
Open Collections Program: Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 ...
Riis emigrated to the United States from Denmark in 1870 at the age of 21, and he knew what it was like to be desperately poor and live in substandard tenement housing.
Scottish Screen Archive - Full record for 'TENEMENT HOUSING IN ...
Title: [TENEMENT HOUSING IN ABERDEEN] Reference number: N0096. Date: 1979. Production company: Grampian Television. Sound: sound. Colour: col. Running time: 3.17 mins
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