Post on 31-Dec-2015
the transition to brick tenements
Tenements
Two Room Tenement Apartment with “Sleeping Closet,” 1890
Boarding and Boardinghouses
Tenement District in Heat Wave
NY Irish Immigrant Employment, 1855
Professionals 0.4%Business Owners 3%Peddlers and Street Vendors 1%Lower Status White-Collar 3%Skilled Manual Workers 34%Unskilled workers 58%Difficult to classify 1%
Street Trades
Irish Immigrant Children
Irish Depositors at the Emigrant Savings Bank, 1880
Top Ten Sources of Immigrants in the U.S., 1850
Ireland, 961,000
Germany, 584,000
England, 279,000
Canada, 148,000
Scotland, 71,000
France, 54,000
Wales, 30,000
Norway, 13,000
Mexico, 13,000
Switzerland, 13,000
Top 10 sources of Imms in 1850
The “German Triangle”
Chinese Immigration
Map of China
Chinese on ship bound for San Francisco
Chinese Gold Miners
The Chinese As West Coast Factory WorkersMarch 3, 1882
Chinese Immigrant Railroad Workers in California
Chinese Laundries
Chinatown, San FranciscoA “Bachelor Society”
Dennis Kearney and the Workingman’s Party of
California