Figure 1.--This photograph is undated, but would have been taken about 1900. We see a tenament in Hamburg with workers families. The boy have cropped hair and seem to mostly wear kneepants and long black stockings. One girl wears a black pinafore. The photograph is taken in the courtyard of a tenament. This destinguishes it from an American tenament which did not have courtyards like this and commonly had more floors. Notice the passageway here which seems to lead to another courtyard.

This photograph is undated, but would have been taken about 1900. We see a tenament in Hamburg with workers families. The boy have cropped hair and seem to mostly wear kneepants and long black stockings. One girl wears a black pinafore. The photograph is taken in the courtyard of a tenament. This destinguishes it from an American tenament which did not have courtyards like this and commonly had more floors. Notice the passageway here which seems to lead to another courtyard. Quite a number of photographs exist of immigrant tenaments in the United States. They are usually shown to depict the poor living conditions the immigrants endured. Of course usually not addressed is the conditions thaey had left behind in Europe. Thus the photograph here provides an interesting insight. Many American immigrants, however, had rural backgrounds.

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