Tenement Life 1860-1910
I found this video on youtube and thought it was really interesting because it ties into what we talked about last class which was the workers in the city in the 1900s. The guy who made it wanted to see how his immigrant ancestors from Ireland lived in New York when they arrived in the late 1800s. He found pictures from the NYC Department of Tenement and some of the pictures were taken by Jacob Riis and I thought that was cool because we looked at some of his pictures in our last class. The video only features pictures but I think they really show how the immigrants lived in the American city. The end of the video features a clip from one of the first Motion Pictures by Thomas Edison.
I find it really sad that immigrants came to America looking for a better life, but sometimes find themselves in a worst condition then they were in before.
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ReplyDeleteBut most of these immigrants realized they were making an investment in their children's future. In fact it did turn out to be an excellent investment as most children of immigrants were educated better and had much better lives because their parents chose to leave Europe and elsewhere.
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