Section: Ethnic Groups
 

Directory: New York City History

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Sub Section: The Irish Community
Article Name: Irish Pioneers of New York City
Special Mention: An excellent E-Book for the benefit of the Irish-American Community. " The Irish in America" by John Francis Magurire 1868.
Web Link: Views of the Famine in Ireland
Web Link: Irish American Genealogical Resources on the Web: Links to Searchable Databases
Web Link: Irish Dancing
Web Link: Jerry Mulvihill: Master Irish Step dancer and Teacher.
Web Link: Irish Neighborhoods, The Five Points, The Fourth Ward and the Tenderloin
Web Link: Irish in Nyc: The Bowery, Greenwich Village and Hell's Kitchen
Web Link: Gaelic Gotham: A History of the Irish in New York
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Web Link: NY-Irish Mailing List (look-ups for New York area)
Web Link: Ireland: Causes of Immigration
Web Link: Irish Immigrant in New York
Web Link: Irish Biographical Sketches
Web Link: The First St. Patrick's Cathedral
Web Link: Irish American Heritage Museum: Albany
Web Link: The Irish and Ethnic Relations in New York City
Web Link: Abie's Irish Stew
Web Link: Apple And Barley Pudding (Irish)
Web Link: Black Pudding Croquette With Gooseberry Compote, Ireland
Web Link: Irish Recipes
Web Link: Cabbage & Bacon (Irish)
Web Link: Irish American Lamb Stew
Web Link: The Irish Potato Famine
Web Link: How Dagger John Saved New York's Irish
Web Link: The Definitive Guide to the Irish Pubs of New York City
Web Link: The Irish In Hudson County

Sub Section: The Italian Community
Article Name: The Joy of Growing up Italian (Permission to use granted by DellaRocchetta.com)
Special Mention: The Italian Immigrant Experience  by Miriam Medina                               Posted 1/10/08                                    
Article Name: Italian Feast In Brooklyn 1900                                                                   Posted 1/7/08
Article Name: Italians Celebrating Saint Roque's Day 1902                                             Posted 1/7/08
Article Name: Brooklyn's Little Italy 1900 Part I                                                                Posted 1/7/08
Article Name: Brooklyn's Little Italy 1900 Part II                                                                Posted 1/7/08
Article Name: Fifth Avenue and A Church In Little Italy 1896                                           Posted 1/11/08
Article Name: Abuse Against An Italian At Barge Office 1902                                         Posted 1/11/08
Article Name: Irate Italians Over New Orleans Lynching Discussed in N.Y. 1891           Posted 1/11/08
Article Name: The Immigrant Coming Here To Suffer 1900                                               Posted 1/12/08
Article Name: Italian Immigration Abuses                                                                          Posted 1/12/08
Article Name: The Danger Encountered by Girl Immigrants 1880                                     Posted 1/12/08
Article Name: South Brooklyn Vendetta or Mafia? Part I 1896                                         Posted 1/16/08
Article Name: South Brooklyn Vendetta or Mafia? Part II 1896                                        Posted 1/16/08
Article Name: South Brooklyn Vendetta or Mafia? Part III 1896                                       Posted 1/16/08
Article Name: South Brooklyn Vendetta or Mafia? Part IV 1896                                      Posted 1/16/08
Article Name: South Brooklyn Vendetta or Mafia? Part V 1896                                       Posted 1/16/08
Article Name: Sicilian's Save Money To Carry Out Their Vengeance here 1902            Posted 1/28/08
Article Name: Old Vendetta in Sicily Behind Catania Killing 1902                                     Posted 1/28/08
Article Name: Italian Life In New York 1892 Part I                                                            Posted 2/20/08
Article Name: Italian Life in New York 1892 Part II                                                           Posted 2/20/08
Article Name: The Italian Women and Their Families 1919                                               Posted 2/22/08
Special Section: A Visual look at how  the Early Italian Immigrant lived  In New York
Pictures: The Marchand Collection At The University of California on the Italian Immigrant
Web Link: Italian family doing piecework at home in New York
Web Link: Sleeping quarters of immigrant workers
Web Link: Boy with a bundle of garments
Web Link: Street Vendors on Hester Street 1898
Web Link: Italian immigrant family working on sewing at home: the Romana Family NYC 1912
Web Link: Immigrant family working on garters in their home. 1912
Web Link: The Mauro family work on feathers and make $2.25 a week. 1911
Web Link: Mother with infant and children in sleeping area of a crowded tenement apartment 1910
Web Link: Similar to the padrone system that victimized adult immigrants was the practice of exploiting Italian children as street musicians. 1878 drawing
Web Link: Child tenement dwellers on a fire escape.
Web Link: Man carrying homework, garment industry 1912
Web Link: Father, mother and daughter work together sewing clothing at home
Web Link: An Italian family and five bunches of artificial flowers in its New York City home 1908.
Web Link: An Italian mother and her baby in Jersey Street, New York City, 1888.
Web Link: Immigrant factory workers outside a plant about 1910
Web Link: The Steerage: immigrants aboard a ship 1911
Web Link: The Huddled Masses who came by the thousands between 1880 and 1914 to escape the unbearable conditions in Eastern Europe.
Web Link: Italian family looking for lost baggage, Ellis Island.
Web Link: Italian women with baby, Ellis Island
Web Link: Immigrants on the steerage deck of the S.S. Pennland, 1893
Pictures: Miscellaneous
Web Link: Italian Women Rag Pickers-1915
Web Link: Child Labor in Tenement Building
Pictures: The Jacob Riis Photo Collection: "How The Other Half Lives" This 1890 book exposed the shameful conditions of life in New York City's tenement district where the Italian Immigrant had to live..
Web Link: Room In A Tenement 1910
Web Link: Shoemaker, Broome Street, early 1890s
Web Link: Jersey Street Tenements
Web Link: Tenement House Yard
Web Link: An Old Rear Tenement in Roosevelt Street
Web Link: In the Home of An Italian Rag Picker, Jersey Street
Web Link: Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement
Web Link: Bohemian Cigarmakers At Work In Their Tenement
Web Link: A flat in the pauper barracks, West 38 St., with all its furniture
Web Link: Under the dump, Rivington Street, about 1890
Web Link: Knee-pants" at forty-five cents a dozen--a Ludlow Street sweater's shop
Web Link: The man slept in this cellar for four years, about 1890
Web Link: Street Arabs in night quarters
Web Link: The Tramp [in a Mulberry Street yard]
Web Link: Bunks in a seven-cent lodging-house, Pell Street
Web Link: Stale Bread Vendor
Web Link: Panorama of Fire-escapes
Web Link: Hester Street, early 1890s
Web Link: Necktie workshop in a Division Street Tenement, 1889
Web Link: Fighting tuberculosis on the roofighting tuberculosis on the roof
Web Link: Vegetable stand in "the Bend"
Web Link: Craps in the hall of the newsboys's lodging-house
Web Link: Boys Ball Team
Other Info:  The Italian Community
Web Link: Italian Immigration
Web Link: Italians to America (genealogy)
Web Link: Mark Pezzano: Italian Folk Singer
Web Link: Becoming Americans, The Italian Experience in the New World
Web Link: lItalian Lodge and Foundation
Web Link: Mama Mi Sei Sorella, Amica e Consigliera: The Many Roles That the Italian Mother Plays
Web Link: Notable Italians in New York
Web Link: The Wartime Violations of Italian American Civil Liberties Act
Web Link: Injustice to Italian Laborers: A Deplorable Lynching-Presidential Papers
Web Link: Italian Immigration in New York
Web Link: Musica Palermo: The Debut of Sollima's Opera "Ellis Island
Web Link: Prisoner in Your Own Home
Web Link: Italian-Americans
Web Link: Ships Links on Italian Genealogy
Web Link: Cimorelli
Web Link: On Italian Immigrants by Pope Leo XIII 1888
Web Link: Italy Research Outline
Web Link: Group of Italians at Ellis Island Photo 1905
Web Link: Italian Ancestry.com -The Ultimate Jump site For All Things Italian
Web Link: Lodge-Sons of Italy
Web Link: Group of Italians at Ellis Island
Web Link: Italian Family in A Ferry Boat Leaving Ellis Island
Web Link: Italian Family Looking For Luggage in Ellis Island-picture
Web Link: Italian Family Making Flowers in East Side Tenement
Web Link: Italian Harlem: America's Largest and Most Italian Little Italy
Web Link: East Harlem Italian Feast , Giglio Feast
Web Link: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Feast-East Harlem- Fordham University
Web Link: Power of Success- Lawrence Auriana
Web Link: The Lisanti Family Chapel in Williamsbridge, The Bronx
Web Link: Italian Genealogy
Web Link: The Naming of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge :Italian Historical Society
Web Link: Italians In The Hudson Valley
Special Mention: The History Box's Choice As Best of the Web On Information for Italian Harlem and the Italian Community.
Web Link: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Shrine in East Harlem:   A wonderful website dedicated to the people who helped make this great festive tradition possible. This website portrays a yearly tradition that has been in existence among the Italian Immigrants since 1881 and will continue to exist even  into the future. Lots of research , photos and valuable historical  information has been invested by its webmaster  in the  preparation of  this website.  A definite must see.
Web Link: East Harlem Giglio: Giglio di San Antonio in East Harlem, is an  Italian Festa in continium since the early 19th century in East Harlem. Also lots of pictures, current as well as historical can be viewed in this website. There are links to other websites both in America and italy that are devoted to or sponsors of Giglio Feasts. This is also a must see.

Sub Section: The African-American Community
Web Link: Seneca Village, A History
Web Link: Early Recordings of African Americans/ Early Ragtime
Web Link: A Black History of Jamaica, New York
Web Link: Slave Island-New York's Hidden History
Web Link: Cab Calloway, perfomer at the Cotton Club
Web Link: Dorothy Dandridge
Web Link: Duke Ellington
Web Link: Lena Horne
Web Link: Drop Me Off in Harlem-Faces of the Renaissance
Web Link: Harlem Groups
Web Link: Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. (1865-1953)
Web Link: The Rise of Black Professionals
Web Link: The Girl's Choir of Harlem
Web Link: The Harlem Globetrotters
Web Link: The Boys Choir of Harlem Sings A Song of Hope
Web Link: The Dance Theater of Harlem
Web Link: Young African Americans Singing and Playing Their Instruments-picture
Web Link: Brief Sketches of African Americans
Web Link: Breaking Racial Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection
Web Link: Jacob Lawrence: One of the Most Important Artists of the 20th Century
Web Link: Madame C. J. Walker-Inventor and Businesswoman
Web Link: Marian Anderson: A Life in Song
Web Link: Charles Richard Drew: Physician and Surgeon
Web Link: The Black Fashion Museum-The African Diaspora Experience
Web Link: Soul Of America-Famous Residents of New York City
Web Link: From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection1822-1909
Web Link: Researching your African-American Ancestors
Web Link: Free Blacks Before the Civil War
Web Link: African American Heroes, 1750-1860
Web Link: Serving the Union: U.S. Colored Troops in the Retreat to Appomattox
Web Link: Hallie Quinn Brown 1850-1949 Educator, Lecturer and Clubwoman
Web Link: John B. Russwurm and Samuel E.Cornish - March 16, 1827, on this day they founded one of the first Black newspapers, The Freedom Journal, in New York CIty
Web Link: Classic Black - photography exhibit of African American ballet dancers, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York
Web Link: Prudence Crandall-Educator and AbolitionistWeb
Web Link: On the Conditions of the Free People of Color in the United States, Anti-Slavery Examiner 13 New York, 1839
Web Link: The African-Americans In Hudson County

Sub Section: The German Community
Web Link: New York City And The Germans
Web Link: The German American, An Ethnic Experience
Web Link: Mediaeval Germany and The Causes of German Emigration
Web Link: German American Soldiers in the Civil War-142 Forty-Eighters
Web Link: Heroes In The War For Our Independence
Web Link: Biographies: Alphabetical List of German-Americans