Kids are kids, whether the calendar says 1890, 1910 or 2019.
So when 4th-graders from Brooklyn’s PS 10 took the “Sweatshop Workers” tour at the Tenement Museum on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, it’s no wonder they were fascinated to learn about the immigrant children who had lived there.
Museum educator Cara Thomas answers questions about the Rogarshevsky’s “modernized” kitchen.
A pedal-operated sewing machine, a mannequin and dress parts surround 4th-graders from PS 10 and their teacher, Michele Kertesz (top, right), as Tenement Museum educator Erin Reid (left) describes how an immigrant family shared its living space with a dress “factory” on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1890s.
Century-old photos show the densely populated neighborhood around the building.
The students pass around an iron featuring a compartment that held hot coals.
Clothes were scrubbed on a washboard and hung up to dry wherever there was room.
A window that opens onto an air shaft sits beside this bed, where two people slept.
By the 1910s, there was a sink with running water in every kitchen.
Coal-powered stoves ran all day to heat water, food and the living space itself.
Artifacts from the building include a pattern tracer and other tools used to make clothes.
Museum educator Cara Thomas answers questions about the Rogarshevsky’s “modernized” kitchen.
A pedal-operated sewing machine, a mannequin and dress parts surround 4th-graders from PS 10 and their teacher, Michele Kertesz (top, right), as Tenement Museum educator Erin Reid (left) describes how an immigrant family shared its living space with a dress “factory” on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1890s.
Century-old photos show the densely populated neighborhood around the building.
The students pass around an iron featuring a compartment that held hot coals.
Clothes were scrubbed on a washboard and hung up to dry wherever there was room.
A window that opens onto an air shaft sits beside this bed, where two people slept.
By the 1910s, there was a sink with running water in every kitchen.
Coal-powered stoves ran all day to heat water, food and the living space itself.
Artifacts from the building include a pattern tracer and other tools used to make clothes.
Museum educator Cara Thomas answers questions about the Rogarshevsky’s “modernized” kitchen.
A window that opens onto an air shaft sits beside this bed, where two people slept.
By the 1910s, there was a sink with running water in every kitchen.
Coal-powered stoves ran all day to heat water, food and the living space itself.
Artifacts from the building include a pattern tracer and other tools used to make clothes.
Museum educator Cara Thomas answers questions about the Rogarshevsky’s “modernized” kitchen.
A pedal-operated sewing machine, a mannequin and dress parts surround 4th-graders from PS 10 and their teacher, Michele Kertesz (top, right), as Tenement Museum educator Erin Reid (left) describes how an immigrant family shared its living space with a dress “factory” on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1890s.
Century-old photos show the densely populated neighborhood around the building.
The students pass around an iron featuring a compartment that held hot coals.
Clothes were scrubbed on a washboard and hung up to dry wherever there was room.
A window that opens onto an air shaft sits beside this bed, where two people slept.
By the 1910s, there was a sink with running water in every kitchen.
Coal-powered stoves ran all day to heat water, food and the living space itself.
Artifacts from the building include a pattern tracer and other tools used to make clothes.
Museum educator Cara Thomas answers questions about the Rogarshevsky’s “modernized” kitchen.
A pedal-operated sewing machine, a mannequin and dress parts surround 4th-graders from PS 10 and their teacher, Michele Kertesz (top, right), as Tenement Museum educator Erin Reid (left) describes how an immigrant family shared its living space with a dress “factory” on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1890s.
Century-old photos show the densely populated neighborhood around the building.
The students pass around an iron featuring a compartment that held hot coals.
Clothes were scrubbed on a washboard and hung up to dry wherever there was room.
A window that opens onto an air shaft sits beside this bed, where two people slept.
By the 1910s, there was a sink with running water in every kitchen.
Coal-powered stoves ran all day to heat water, food and the living space itself.
Artifacts from the building include a pattern tracer and other tools used to make clothes.
Museum educator Cara Thomas answers questions about the Rogarshevsky’s “modernized” kitchen.
