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NYC c. 1888 -or- Guaranteed To Blow Your Mind!
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 4:02 am
by dales
Re: NYC c. 1888 -or- Guaranteed To Blow Your Mind!
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:29 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
Incredible. How people survived and made. Some didn't, many did.
ETA
I like the picture of kids born to people while waiting to get in. Those people must have waited more than a few years.
Re: NYC c. 1888 -or- Guaranteed To Blow Your Mind!
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:47 pm
by dales
The picture of those young boys sleeping over a heating grate were heart-wrenching.
Re: NYC c. 1888 -or- Guaranteed To Blow Your Mind!
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 4:42 am
by Lord Jim
An Italian immigrant smokes a pipe in his makeshift home under the Rivington Street Dump
Now that
is bad...
When you have to live
under a dump....
In a picture taken in 1890 a Bohemian family of four roll cigars at home in their tenement. Working from six in the morning till nine at night, they earn $3.75 for a thousand cigars, and between them could turn out three thousand cigars a week
Hey, the cigar company isn't in the charity business...
If they didn't like the wages being paid they could always find a job some place else....
Re: NYC c. 1888 -or- Guaranteed To Blow Your Mind!
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 5:33 am
by Scooter
oldr_n_wsr wrote:I like the picture of kids born to people while waiting to get in. Those people must have waited more than a few years.
I think they more likely accompanied their parents on the voyage over and were being detained at Ellis Island with them. I don't imagine that there were many people detained for five or six or more years waiting to get in.
Re: NYC c. 1888 -or- Guaranteed To Blow Your Mind!
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 5:14 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
I thought that too but to be sure, I'll go reread. Where is the RIF van when you (I) need it?
