Index
Introduction
97 Orchard Street
Baldizzi Family
Glockner Family
Gumpertz Family
Levine Family
Moore Family
Rogarshevsky Family
97 Orchard Street
African-Americans
Slavery and Emancipation
Segregation in Places of Worship
Chinese
History
Recent Immigration Patterns
Health/Diseases
Cholera
Marasmus and Scrofula
Hydrocephalius
Byssinosis
Typhus Fever
Typhoid Fever
Polio
Infant Mortality
Combating Epidemics at the Turn of the Century
Tuberculosis
Economic Depression
Panic of 1873
Depression of 1893
Great Depression (1930s)
Garment Industry
History
Composition of the Garment Industry
Dressmaking
Dressmaking in the 1870s
Department Stores and Changing Fashion
Garment Industry in NYC Today
Garment Labeling
Sewing Machine
Germans
Immigration
Kleindeutschland
The End of Kleindeutschland
Housing
Apartment Houses
Before the Tenement Housing Options in the 1860s
Tenements
Public Housing
Housing Abandonment
Gentrificaton
Homelessness
Immigrant Housing Today
Immigration
The European Exodus
Processing New Arrivals
The Administration of Immigration
Congressional Restrictions
Johnson-Reed Act of 1924
Immigrations since 1924
Public Charge Policy
Voluntary Repatriation Policy
Immigration and Nationality Act,
or the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952
Immigration and Nationality Act amendmetns - 1965 and on
Immigration Reform and Immirgrant Responsibility Act - 1996
Applying for U.S. Citizenship
Immigration - current U.S. and New York City Refugees
How many Immigrants each Year?
Where do Immigrants come from?
Irish
Irish Immigration to New York City
The Irish at 97 Orchard Street
19th Century Dublin
Irish Immigrants in the Workplace
Irish Immigrants and the Catholic Church in America
Tammany Hall and Irish Political Participation
Irish Nationalism
Irish Fraternal and County Organiszations
19th Century Health Care and the Immigrant Irish
The Irish Wake
Italians
Little Italies
Earning a Living
End of the Trans-Atlantic Migration
Jews
The Lower East Side
Earning a Living
Decentralizaton of Jewish New York
Labor Movement
The Garment Industry - 1880 to 1911
The Uprising of 20,000
The Great Revolt
Landsmanschaftn
Congregational Sons of Telsh - Rogarshevskys' Benevolent Association
Lower East Side
Development as an Immigratn Neighborhood
The Immigrants
The Physical Landscape
Continuity and Change following Workd War II
Gangs on the Lower East Side
Movies
Nativism
American Eugenics
Nativism and Discrimination in the Lives of Irish Immigrants
Parks/Playgrounds
Public Schools
Social Welfare
The Poorhouse
Outdoor Relief
Children's Law of 1875
Child Saving
Home Relief
The New Deal
Aliens and the WPA
The War on Poverty
Welfare Policy Today
Puerto Ricans
Rent, Wages & the Cost of Living
1 lb. fish = 8Cents
Riots/Civil Unrest
1863 Draft Riots
Orange and Green Riots of 1870 and 1871
Settlement Houses
Sweatshops
History
The Evolution of a Garment - How the Sweatshop System worked
Roles within the Tenement Sweatshop
Seasonality in the Garment Idustry
Contemporary Sweatshops
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory