Grade Range: 4-10Resource Type(s): Web LinkDate Posted: 8/7/2009
This online exhibition, produced by the Tenement Museum, allows students to play the role of an immigrant to New York City in the early twentieth century. Students will learn about the immigration experience by creating an indentity and making decisions about making a living and making a living in the Lower East Side. Video clips of an an actress playing the role of an immigrant add context and give students helpful advice. Panoramic photographs of rooms in a tenement apartment give students a unique perspective into the lives of immigrants in the early twentieth century. This website was a 2009 Museums and the Web Best of the Web Award nominee.
Museum education
Virginia Lee Mead wore this salmon-pink silk satin dress when she was a young woman living in New...
material culture, boat, immigrant, international, urbanization, twentieth century, apartment, ship, immigration, Russian American, factory, New York, 1900, culture, travel, nineteen hundreds, city, New York City, transportation, neighborhood
A Jewish immigrant who is saving money to bring his wife and children to join him in American cre...
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