1. A Look at Five Points, Lower Manhattan, NYC
... treated in the area during the time; Cholera, Yellow Fever, Small Pox and Malaria were common infectious diseases in New York City during the nineteenth century. Other assemblages note the cultural differences between the Irish and German immigrants living in Five Points. Diana Dizerega Wall, a historical anthropologist and professor at the City College of New York discusses that there is also a difference in the style of table settings between that of the working class and the middle class in ... was surprising in the case of the middle class homes of the Eighth Street site. This was u...
- Word Count: 3406
- Approx Pages: 14
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Undergraduate