Following the stock market crash of 1929, the rising unemployment rate and widespread depression made it necessary for the city of New York to provide more commodious quarters for the city's homeless. New York City in the Great Depression: Sheltering the Homeless is a pictorial history of the shelters provided by the city during the Great Depression, including the Municipal Lodging House and its annexes in Manhattan, the farm colony at Camp LaGuardia, and the rehabilitation center at Hart Island. Archival photographs and documents depict the famous Great Depression breadlines, Mayor Jimmy Walk... Read More
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Following the stock market crash of 1929, the rising unemployment rate and widespread depression made it necessary for the city of New York to provide more commodious quarters for the city's homeless. New York City in the Great Depression: Sheltering the Homeless is a pictorial history of the shelters provided by the city during the Great Depression, including the Municipal Lodging House and its annexes in Manhattan, the farm colony at Camp LaGuardia, and the rehabilitation center at Hart Island. Archival photographs and documents depict the famous Great Depression breadlines, Mayor Jimmy Walk... Read More
Following the stock market crash of 1929, the rising unemployment rate and widespread depression made it necessary for the city of New York to provide more commodious quarters for the city's homeless. New York City in the Great Depression: Sheltering the Homeless is a pictorial history of the shelters provided by the city during the Great Depression, including the Municipal Lodging House and its annexes in Manhattan, the farm colony at Camp LaGuardia, and the rehabilitation center at Hart Island. Archival photographs and documents depict the famous Great Depression breadlines, Mayor Jimmy Walker, Gov. Al Smith, and Tammany Hall, as well as the city's immigrants and tenement housing.
Details
Pages: 128
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Date: 5th October 2009
State: New York
Illustration Note: Black and White
ISBN: 9780738565972
Format: Paperback
BISACs: HISTORY / United States / General HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Reviews
Title: 63 Windows and What They Show Author: Sam Roberts Publisher: New York Times Date: 11/27/09
As bad as the Great Recession is, "New York City in the Great Depression: Sheltering the Homeless" (Arcadia, $21.99), by Dorothy Laager Miller, is a reminder of how much worse things were back then. The stark black-and-white vintage photographs of municipal shelters and bread lines speak volumes.
Author Bio
Dorothy Laager Miller has worked as a teacher on Long Island for 30 years and is a member of the Three Village Historical Society. She began researching New York City's Great Depression after the discovery of her grandfather's archive of photographs documenting the Municipal Lodging House, where he was the superintendent. Through images from his collection, as well as from the New-York Historical Society and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, she presents the faces of New York citizens dealing with poverty, unemployment, and homelessness during one of the worst economic times in recent history.
Following the stock market crash of 1929, the rising unemployment rate and widespread depression made it necessary for the city of New York to provide more commodious quarters for the city's homeless. New York City in the Great Depression: Sheltering the Homeless is a pictorial history of the shelters provided by the city during the Great Depression, including the Municipal Lodging House and its annexes in Manhattan, the farm colony at Camp LaGuardia, and the rehabilitation center at Hart Island. Archival photographs and documents depict the famous Great Depression breadlines, Mayor Jimmy Walker, Gov. Al Smith, and Tammany Hall, as well as the city's immigrants and tenement housing.
Pages: 128
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Date: 5th October 2009
State: New York
Illustrations Note: Black and White
ISBN: 9780738565972
Format: Paperback
BISACs: HISTORY / United States / General HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Title: 63 Windows and What They Show Author: Sam Roberts Publisher: New York Times Date: 11/27/09
As bad as the Great Recession is, "New York City in the Great Depression: Sheltering the Homeless" (Arcadia, $21.99), by Dorothy Laager Miller, is a reminder of how much worse things were back then. The stark black-and-white vintage photographs of municipal shelters and bread lines speak volumes.
Dorothy Laager Miller has worked as a teacher on Long Island for 30 years and is a member of the Three Village Historical Society. She began researching New York City's Great Depression after the discovery of her grandfather's archive of photographs documenting the Municipal Lodging House, where he was the superintendent. Through images from his collection, as well as from the New-York Historical Society and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, she presents the faces of New York citizens dealing with poverty, unemployment, and homelessness during one of the worst economic times in recent history.