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the transition to brick tenements

Tenements

Two Room Tenement Apartment with “Sleeping Closet,” 1890

Boarding and Boardinghouses

Tenement District in Heat Wave

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%

Street Trades

Irish Immigrant Children

Irish Depositors at the Emigrant Savings Bank, 1880

Top 10 sources of Imms in 1850

The “German Triangle”

Chinese Immigration

Map of China

Chinese on ship bound for San Francisco

Chinese Gold Miners

The Chinese As West Coast Factory Workers March 3, 1882

Chinese Immigrant Railroad Workers in California

Chinese Laundries

Chinatown, San Francisco A “Bachelor Society”

Dennis Kearney and the Workingman’s Party of California

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