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Lower East Side Tenement Museum [Published Date: 1999, 2004,2014,2016] Paperback, 56 pp. In good+ condition. Pictorial paper covers with French flaps. Light nicking and creasing to edges of covers and light overall scuffing with a bit of the color scuffed off along edges. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. Located in the country's most renowned immigrant neighborhood, the Lower EastSide Tenement Museum interprets historic immigrant experiences to illuminate the present. By Stimulating dialogue on pressing social issues ot promote humanitarian and democratic values, the Museum has established a new model for the museum and preservation professions. Contents include: Part I: Founding a Museum : Josephine Baldizzi Esposito's homecoming; Ruth J. Abram and the "urban log cabin"; A home for the stories : "It was like a time capsule"; Using the past to forge a future; The Lower East Side; 97 Orchard Street : Birth of a Building; Daily life at 97 Orchard; Moving Days