Tenements were meant for 6-8 people, but a lot of times tenements would be filled with more than 60 people.
That my friend is very true.
Working class. Manual workers.
Irish immigrants lived in tenements.......
tenements
working class
Many immigrants lived in urban apartment slums called flats. These flats held a great many people and were often overcrowded.
Tenements were meant for 6-8 people, but a lot of times tenements would be filled with more than 60 people.
immigrants lived in tenements and some of there kitchens had no windows.
That my friend is very true.
recent immigrants
Working class. Manual workers.
Jacob Riis exposed the problem in tenements by taking pictures of the life in tenements. He showed these pictures to the government and to the people populated in areas which held a lot of tenements where many immigrants lived.
immigrants
Irish immigrants lived in tenements.......
Cities were diverse, but separated by social classes. Wealthy urbanites settled away from immigrants and industry. Many immigrants worked in sweatshops and lived in crowded, unsanitary dumbbell tenements.
tenements
Those immigrants who settled in New York during the 19th and early 20th centuries lived in inexpensive rented housing in Manhattan and later in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens. Many lived in small, crowded apartments called tenements