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the transition to brick tenements

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Tenements

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Two Room Tenement Apartment with “Sleeping Closet,” 1890

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Boarding and Boardinghouses

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Tenement District in Heat Wave

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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%

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Street Trades

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Irish Immigrant Children

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Irish Depositors at the Emigrant Savings Bank, 1880

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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

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The “German Triangle”

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Chinese Immigration

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Map of China

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Chinese on ship bound for San Francisco

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Chinese Gold Miners

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The Chinese As West Coast Factory WorkersMarch 3, 1882

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Chinese Immigrant Railroad Workers in California

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Chinese Laundries

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Chinatown, San FranciscoA “Bachelor Society”

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Dennis Kearney and the Workingman’s Party of

California