Exploring 97 Orchard Bundle

$40.00

This bundle includes: Biography of a Tenement & our Tenement Museum Tea Towel.  


Biography of a Tenement


by Andrew Dolkart


Format: Paperback


“I trace my ancestry back to the Mayflower,” writes Andrew S. Dolkart. “Not to the legendary ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620, but to the more prosaic tenement on the southeast corner of East Broadway and Clinton Street named the Mayflower, where my father was born in 1914 to Russian-Jewish immigrants.” For Dolkart, the experience of being raised in a tenement became a metaphor for the life that was afforded countless thousands of other immigrant children growing up in Lower Manhattan during the past century and more. Dolkart presents for us a precise and informative biography of a typical tenement house in New York City that became, in 1988, the site for the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Dolkart documents, analyses, and interprets the architectural and social history of this building at 97 Orchard Street, starting in the 1860s when it was erected, moving on to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the neighbourhood started to change, and concluding in the present day as the building is reincarnated as the museum.This book is a lasting tribute to the legacy of immigrants and their children, who were part of the transformation of New York City and the fabric of everyday American urban life.



Tenement Tea Towel


This stunning tea towel is the perfect keepsake celebrating the Tenement Museum!



  • 24″ x 36″ flour sack tea towel

  • made in the USA

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