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NEW YORK, New York in the 1890s: 1 through 6 of 6

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  1. An Influx of Irish Immigrant: Young Women arrive in New York
    date 1897map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Irish, Women, Immigration

    The woman from Ireland looked around the chaos on Ellis Island visibly upset, as the immigration officials accused her of giving them the wrong name of the person picking her up.  Migrations to the United States “did not always occur without problems or disruptions and occasionally the colleen arrived with no one to greet her.”[1]  On April 30, 1897, The New York Times published an article that...

  2. Murder of Geographic Proportions
    date June 25, 1897 to November 8, 1897map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Crime/Violence, Geography

    What is more interesting than a story that involves a jealous love triangle that results in the murder of a man and the arrest of another who has been betrayed by a friend and lover? It is the realization that this is not a plot line for a fictional soap opera, but a real account that occurred in the Lower East Side of New York City in 1897. Martin Thorn and William Guidensuppe were both competing...

  3. Class Tensions Arise in the Markets of Hester Street
    date January 1, 1898map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Women, Progressive Reformers, Marketplace

    "The true heart of the Lower East Side beat in the street," and Hester Street was no exception. It served as the hub of life in the Lower East Side – teeming with women shopping, children playing and peddlers manning their pushcarts full of food. While the tenements towered high above blocking out the sky, the streets were overrun with peddlers and their pushcarts and their female clientele milling...

  4. Captain O’Brien Gives Birth to Theatre in Birmingham
    date 1890 to 1910map JEFFERSON, Alabama, NEW YORK, New Yorktags Birmingham, Alabama, Theatre, New York City

    The citizens of Birmingham lived without art. That was until Captain Frank O’Brien, Birmingham, Alabama’s fourteenth mayor, leased the upper floor of a small brick building in the city’s Southside in 1872. It was named Sublett’s Hall in honor of a Confederate Major from Mississippi and was the first theatre in Birmingham. Captain O’Brien is best remembered for his other contribution to the...

  5. The Dangers of Living on the Lower East Side
    date 1890 to 1910map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Immigration, City Life

    A mother anxiously calls out her children's names in the street. Her neighbors frantically stand at her side, their eyes darting back and forth across the busy streets looking for the lost little ones. Finally, what seems like hours later, there is a banging at the tenement door. It is a New York City policeman, toting the lost children by the hands. Historical photographer Lewis Wickes Hine...

  6. Great Migration, Religion, and Churches in New York City
    date January 1, 1893 to December 31, 1909map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Civil War, Religion, Great Migration, African-Americans

    The "Great Migration" of African Americans to the north in the early 1900's was the result of years of enslavement. The migration introduced new eager American citizens to the north during a time when new faces were foreign faces. For African Americans, the lure of freedom from Jim Crow laws, a higher and fairer wage for labor, and a fresh start to life was reasons enough to move to "the promised...