Section: Ethnic Groups of New York State
 

Directory: New York State History

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Article Name: Ethnic Groups of New York State  
Section: American Indian
Special Mention Also click here for Indian Tribes/Treaties/Chiefs/Leaders located in the United States Main Directory for additional  information on the American Indian.
Article Name: The Indians of New York                                         Posted 8/13/08
Article Name: Indian Occupancy in New York                               Posted 8/23/08
Web Link: American Indian Genealogy
Web Link: Indian Tribes of New York
Web Link: Native American Clothing and Regalia
Web Link: The Life and Times Of. Gen. Ely S. Parker: The Last Grand Sachem of the Iroquois

Section: The Irish Community
Special Mention An excellent E-Book for the benefit of the Irish-American Community. " The Irish in America" by John Francis Magurire 1868.


Article Name: The Irish Immigrants in New York
Article Name: Irish Pioneers of New York City
Web Link: The Irish In Rochester: An Historical Retrospect
Web Link: Irish American Genealogical Resources on the Web: Links to Searchable Databases
Web Link: Irish Dancing
Web Link: Ireland: Causes of Immigration
Web Link: Irish Biographical Sketches
Web Link: Irish American Heritage Museum: Albany
Web Link: The Irish Potato Famine
Web Link: Views of the Famine in Ireland
Web Link: Irish Step Dancing in America: History
Web Link:
Web Link: NY-Irish Mailing List (look-ups for New York area)
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: How Dagger John Saved New York's Irish

Section: The Italian Community
Special Mention: The Italian Immigrant Experience  by Miriam Medina                               Posted 1/10/08     
Article Name: Italians Immigrants in New York State 
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 Immigrants in the Sleeping Quarters that New York offered the Newcomers.
Web Link: A Sweatshop Tenement Flat on Ludlow Street, New York. 1889
Web Link: Children Playing in Street Sprinkler 1915
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: Hester Street, c. 1903. The heart of New York City's Lower East Side
Web Link: Child tenement dwellers on a fire escape
Web Link: An alley strewn with bottles and trash, 1889
Web Link: Mother with infant and children in sleeping area of a crowded tenement apartment, c.1910
Web Link: Immigrants making clothing at a shop, 1912
Web Link: Mother and children in a tenement kitchen, 1915
Web Link: Immigrant family working on sewing at home: the Romana family, New York City, 1912.
Web Link: Pushcart peddler in Lower East Side, New  York, early 1900s.
Web Link: Crowded Hester Street, early 1900s.
Web Link: Orchard Street in New York, 1898
Web Link: A Street in the Five Points district of New York City, 1870. The slum streets were narrow, crowded and strewn with garbage.
Web Link: Steerage passengers. The "huddled masses," steerage passengers who came by the thousands between 1880 and 1914 to escape the unbearable conditions in Eastern Europe.
Web Link: Italian Family Looking for Baggage in Ellis Island
Web Link: Deck scene on an immigrant liner in the first years of the 20th century
Web Link: Immigrants penned up by nationality on Ellis Island c. 1910.
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 Occupations with English Equivalents groups
Web Link: Stories By and About Italian Immigrants
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: Italian Lodge
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: The Wartime Violations of Italian American Civil Liberties Act
Web Link: Injustice to Italian Laborers: A Deplorable Lynching-Presidential Papers
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: Series of Talks by Pope Leo XIII Feb. 20, 1878-July 20, 1903.
Web Link: Italy Research Outline
Web Link: Italian Ancestry.com -The Ultimate Jump site For All Things Italian
Web Link: Series of Talks by Pope John Paul II 1978-2005
Web Link: Group of Italians at Ellis Island Photo 1905
Web Link: Lodge-Sons of Italy
Web Link: Power of Success- Lawrence Auriana
Web Link: Italian Genealogy
Web Link: The Naming of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge :Italian Historical Society

Sub Section: African-Americans  
Web Link: The African Presence in the Americas 1492-1992  
Web Link: Seneca Village  
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: 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: 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: 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