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- catalog abstract ""Jeff Kisseloff brings together 137 New Yorkers who witnessed daily life in Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II. Dividing the city into ten neighborhoods and devoting a chapter and about a dozen voices to each, Kisseloff offers a brief historical introduction, then lets the eyewitnesses speak for themselves. We hear a survivor's account of the harrowing Triangle Shirtwaist fire as well as tales of the sweatshops, the settlement houses, and the immigrants from around the world who poured into the Lower East Side at the turn of the century. There are vignettes of John Reed, Louise Bryant, Eugene O'Neill, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. We read of the bloody beginnings of the seamen's union and, down the street from the docks, visit with Thomas Wolfe and Edgar Lee Masters in the Hotel Chelsea. In Harlem, the Savoy and the Cotton Club were in their heyday, as were Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, and Adam Clayton Powell. Throughout the book, Kisseloff engages us in a unique conversation between an all-but-bygone time and our own."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11970132.
- catalog coverage "Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Biography Anecdotes.".
- catalog coverage "Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) History Anecdotes.".
- catalog coverage "Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Social life and customs Anecdotes.".
- catalog coverage "New York (N.Y.) Biography Anecdotes.".
- catalog coverage "New York (N.Y.) History 1898-1951 Anecdotes.".
- catalog coverage "New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs Anecdotes.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Jeff Kisseloff brings together 137 New Yorkers who witnessed daily life in Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II. Dividing the city into ten neighborhoods and devoting a chapter and about a dozen voices to each, Kisseloff offers a brief historical introduction, then lets the eyewitnesses speak for themselves. We hear a survivor's account of the harrowing Triangle Shirtwaist fire as well as tales of the sweatshops, the settlement houses, and the immigrants from around the world who poured into the Lower East Side at the turn of the century. There are vignettes of John Reed, Louise Bryant, Eugene O'Neill, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [601]-605) and index.".
- catalog description "Lower East Side -- Upper East Side -- Upper West Side -- Northern Manhattan -- Harlem -- East Harlem -- The East Side -- Greenwich Village -- Chelsea -- Hell's Kitchen.".
- catalog description "We read of the bloody beginnings of the seamen's union and, down the street from the docks, visit with Thomas Wolfe and Edgar Lee Masters in the Hotel Chelsea. In Harlem, the Savoy and the Cotton Club were in their heyday, as were Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, and Adam Clayton Powell. Throughout the book, Kisseloff engages us in a unique conversation between an all-but-bygone time and our own."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 622 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801863066 (paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Biography Anecdotes.".
- catalog spatial "Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) History Anecdotes.".
- catalog spatial "Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Social life and customs Anecdotes.".
- catalog spatial "New York (N.Y.) Biography Anecdotes.".
- catalog spatial "New York (N.Y.) History 1898-1951 Anecdotes.".
- catalog spatial "New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs Anecdotes.".
- catalog subject "974.7/1 21".
- catalog subject "F128.5 .K55 1999".
- catalog subject "Oral history.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Lower East Side -- Upper East Side -- Upper West Side -- Northern Manhattan -- Harlem -- East Harlem -- The East Side -- Greenwich Village -- Chelsea -- Hell's Kitchen.".
- catalog title "You must remember this : an oral history of Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II / Jeff Kisseloff.".
- catalog type "Anecdotes. fast".
- catalog type "Biography Anecdotes. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".