Resources - Lower East Side Tenement Museum

ResourcesThe resource section provides information that can be used as a quick reference. It is ahandy document that can be helpful in answering questions that may arise at any moment.Because you have front-line contact with visitors, educators are encouraged to pursueindividual research to expand their knowledge, which helps to effectively answer any visitorquestion.The following information includes a list of LESTM staff, a list of museum relatedorganizations that might be useful to contact for advice and research; docent and museumeducator organizations dedicated to the advancement and development of the docentprofession; bibliography for reference and research related to the institution and its missionbut also related to interpretation and education in museums; a terminology list of frequentlyused terms related to museum work, a brief and general description of staff positions canbe found as part of the terminology list. This section offers the educator an introduction tomuseums and museum work.

To provide to our visitors with the best possible tour experience, docents are encouraged toconduct individual research in LESTM - related topics as well as other museum-relatedtopics. Research topics and related publications as well as additional museum relatedcontact information is included for your convenience.Information Packet provided to the educators by the LESTM• Tour Scripts for Getting By, Piecing it Together, and Confino Tours• A copy of the policies and procedures• A copy of the educator manualLESTM website: General information about the LESTM. Tours information anddescriptions, actuality topics concerning to the LESTM. www.tenement.orgMuseum related organizations: including statement of who they are and generalinformation* Indicates LESTM affiliation• American Association of Museums-AAM1575 Eye Street, NW, Suite 400Washington, DC, 20005Phone: (202) 289-1818Fax: (202) 289-6578www.aam-us.orgPublications: Museum News (bimonthly magazine) and AVISO (monthly newsletter).• American Association for State and Local History-AASLH530 Church Street, Suite 600Nashville, TN 37219Fax: (615) 255-2979Email: history@aaslh.orgwww.aaslh.orgPublications: History News (quarterly magazine) and Dispatch (monthly newsletter).• Association of Living Historical Farms and Agricultural MuseumsC/o Farmers MuseumPO Box 800Cooperstown, NY 13326Phone: (607) 547-1400www.alhfam.org/

Annual Conferences hosted by member institutions in the United States andCanada.Publications: ALHFAM Bulletin (quarterly), and ALHFAM Proceedings (annual,papers and summaries of work presented at the annual conferences).• The Lower Hudson Conference-LHCService agency for museums and historical organizations.2199 Saw Mill River RoadElmsford, New York 10523Phone: (914) 592-6726Toll Free: (877) 592-6700Fax: (914) 592-6946E-mail: lowerhudson@email.msn.com• Museum Association of New York265 River StreetTroy, NY 12180Phone: (518) 273-3400Fax: (518) 273-3416E-mail: Info@MANYonline.orgwww.manyonline.orgPublications: MANY Connections (monthly newsletter).• Museum Education Roundtable-MER621 Pennsylvania Avenue, SEWashington, DC 20003Phone: (202) 547-8378Fax: (202) 547-8344Email: merorg@msn.comwww.mer-online.org• National Park Service*US Department of the Interiorwww.nps.gov.• National Trust for Historic Preservation*1785 Massachusetts Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20036Phone: (202) 673-4000www.nthp.org/• New England Museum Association-NEMABoston National Historic ParkCharlestown Navy YardBoston, MA 02129Phone: (617) 242-2283Fax: (617) 241-5797www.nemanet.org

Publications: NEMA News (quarterly journal).• New York Folklore SocietyNonprofit organization offering programs and services to folk and traditional arts inNew York City.PO Box 764Schenectady, New York 12301Phone: (518) 346-7008Fax: (518) 346-6617Email: nyfs@nyfolklore.orgwww.nyfolklore.orgPublications: VOICES: The Journal of The New York Folklore (membershipmagazine).• Mid-Atlantic Association of MuseumsPO Box 27151Baltimore, Maryland 21230Phone: (410) 223-1194Fax: (410) 223-2773www.MidAtlanticMuseums.orgPublications: The Courier (quarterly newsletter) and The Museologist (on linejournal)Docent organizations and resourcesNational Docent Symposium- A biennale forum for volunteer docents. Next meeting is in2003, hosted by the Art Institute of Chicago Museum Education Department.Symposium date: September 11-14, 2003.Registration: starts January and due date is in July.Coordinator of the Symposium at the Art institute of Chicago:• Francesca Rodriguez, docent coordinatorArt Institute of Chicago111Michigan Ave.Chicago IL 60603Ph: (312) 443-3798 Fax:(312) 606-0493E-mail: frodriguez@artic.eduThe Docent Educator-Quarterly journal dedicated to inform and improve docenteducator’s performance providing to the docents teaching techniques. They also offer “TheBest of the Docent Educator” a compendium of their 12 years of publications.• Alan Gartenhaus-Publisher/EditorPO Box 2080Kamuela, HI 96743-2080Phone: (808) 885-7728Fax: (808) 885-8315Email: arg-de@aloha.net

National Association of Interpretation-NAI- Dedicated to the advancement of theprofession of interpretation offering education programs and workshops.• P.O. Box 2246Fort Collins, CO 80521Phone: (970) 484-8283Fax: (970) 484-8179Toll Free: (888) 900-8283www.interpnet.comPublications: Legacy (magazine published six times per year) and Journal of InterpretationResearch.Bibliography/ research materialsSources are organized by topic.General/MuseumAlexander, Edward P. Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions ofMuseums. American Association for State and Local History: Nashville, 1979.American Association of Museums Committee on Ethics. Museum Ethics. WashingtonD.C.: American Association of Museums, 1978.American Association of Museums. The Official Museum Directory. Washington D.C.:American Association of Museums, current edition (2002).Butcher-Younghans, Sherry. Historic House Museums: A Practical Handbook for theirCare, Preservation, and Management. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.Falk, John H. and Lynn D. Dierking. Learning From Museums: Visitor Experiences and theMaking of Meaning. California: Altamira Press, 2000.Falk, John H. and Lynn D. Dierking. The Museum Experience. Washington D.C.:Whalesback Books, 1992.Hooper-Greenhill, Ellian, ed. The Education Role of the Museum.London: Routledge, 1994.West, Patricia. Domesticating History: The Political Origins of America’s House Museums.Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1999.Museum interpretationAnderson, Jay. Time Machines: The World of Living History. Nashville: AmericanAssociation for State and Local History, 1993.Beck, Larry and Ted Cable. Interpretation for the21st Century: Fifteen Guiding Principlesfor interpreting Nature and Culture. Champaign IL: Sagamore Publishing, 1998.

Credle, Jamie. “10 Red Flags for the Historic House Museums.” The Docent Educator.Vol.6, No.3, Spring 1997:4-5.“Interpreting the Historic House Museum.” The Docent Educator.Vol.9, No.1, Autumn 1999:14-15.Donnelly Jessica Foy. ed. Interpreting Historic House Museums.California: Altamira Press, 2002.Gartenhause, Alan. “Crafting a Tour.” The Docent Educator Vol.5, No1, Autumn, 1995:.2-5.Jones, Dale. “Living History in the City.” History News. Vol.50, No.3, Summer 1995:10-13.Levy, Barbara A., Sandra Lloyd and Susan Schreiber. Great Tours! : Thematic Tours andGuide Training for Historic Sites. California: Altamira Press, 2001.Loewen, James W. Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong. New York:New Press, 1999.Lubar, Steven and W. David Kingery. History FromThings. Washington D.C.: SmithsonianInstitution Press, 1995.Roth, Stacy F. Past Into Present: Effective Techniques for First-Person HistoricalInterpretation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.Tilden, Freeman. Interpreting Our Heritage.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1957.Lower East Side Tenement Museum- History of the museum and the 97 Orchard Streetbuilding. Family histories. Articles, publications related.Accreditation Self-Study Questionnaire, April 2001Abram, Ruth. “Planting Cut Flowers.” History News, Vol.55, No.3, Summer 2000:4-10.Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Goals of Tenement Museum Programming. NewYork: LESTMLower East Side Tenement Museum. Handling Museum Objects Memorandum. New York:LESTM, July 23, 2001.Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Institutional Code of Ethics. New York: LESTM,December 6, 2001.Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Lower East Side Tenement Museum EmergencyResponse and Recovery Plan. New York: LESTM, 2002.Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Lower East Side Tenement Museum’s VisionStatement. New York: LESTM, May 2001.Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Tenement Encyclopedia. New York: LESTMwww.tenement.org/emcyclopedia.pdf November/2002.

Lower East Side Neighborhood/Local HistoryArchibald, Robert A. A Place to Remember: Using Local History to Build Community.California: Altamira Press, 1999.Dwork, Deborah. “Health Conditions of Jews on the Lower East Side of New York 1880-1914.” Medical History 25. (January 1981).Hawes, Elizabeth. New York, New York: How the Apartment House Transformed the Life ofthe City, 1869-1930. New York, 1993.Kammen, Carol. On Doing Local History. California: Altamira Press, 1986.Kerr, K. Austin. Nearby History: Local Business, Exploring their History. California: AltamiraPress, 2000.Kyving, David and Myron Marty. Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You. California:Altamira Press, 2000.Nadel, Stanley. Little Germany: Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in New York City, 1845-1880.Chicago 1990.Wasserman, Suzanne R. The Good Old Days of Poverty: The battle Over Fate of the NewYork City’s Lower East Side During the Depression Ph.D. dissertation, New YorkUniversity: New York, 1990.FolkloreExploring Italian Folklore. http://www.deborahmillemaci.com/Ita-Folklore.htmlGaster, Thomas. The Holy and the Profane: Evolution of Jewish Folkways.New York, 1980.Jewish Folklore. http://www.folklore.org.il/books.htm. Nov 2002.Jewish Legends Guides Jewish Folklore Books Yiddish Folktales Reference Information.http://www.walterswebs.com/am167.htm Nov 2002.Lamm, Maurice. The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning. New York, 1969.Nardini, Gloria. “Review of Studies in Italian American Folklore.”Journal of AmericanFolklore Fall: 1998.Pignoloni, Flaminio. Italian folklore, Canti popolari del nord e del sud. Vol. 1. New York, O.Pagani [c1934].Suter, John ed. Working With Folk Materials in New York State: A Manuall for Folkloristsand Archivists. New York: New York Folklore Society, 1994.

Sullivan, J W. Tenement tales of New York. New York: H. Holt and company, 1895.Theodore, Roosevelt. Tenement house industries and the public health; a judicialexperience. New York: National Consumers' League, 1912.Veiller, Lawrence. Tenement house legislation in New York, 1852-1900. Prepared for theTenement House Commission of 1900. Albany, N.Y., Brandow, 1900.Tenement house reform in New York, 1834-1900. Prepared for the Tenement houseCommission of 1900 . New York: The Evening Post Job Printing House, 1900.Wagner, Yohanna von. Tenement house inspection. N.p.,1901.Women's City Club of New York. Tenement home work and a new bill initiated by theWomen's City Club and the City Club of New York. New York, 1920?.Wright, Julia McNair. Shoe-binders of New York, Tenement-life in New York ; no. 1.Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1867.Tenement Reform LawsNew York State. The tenement house act. caption title. "Chapter 908. An act for theregulation of tenement and lodging houses in the cities of New York and Brooklyn. PassedMay 14, 1867." Act for the regulation of tenement and lodging houses in the cities of NewYork and Brooklyn. New York: 1867.New York State. The Tenement House Law : enacted by the Legislature of the state of NewYork, 1901 : Chapter 334 of the Laws of the state of New York for 1901. Brooklyn, N.Y.:Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1901.New York State. The Tenement House Law and the Lodging House Law of the city of NewYork : with headings, paragraphs, marginal notes and full indexes. New York : The Recordand Guide, 1902.New York State. The tenement house act: prepared for the Tenement House Department.New York:: The Dept., 1903.New York State. Building and health laws and regulations affecting the city of New York,the Tenement House Act, the Building Code, the Sanitary Code, charter provisions, statuteand rules regulating plumbing. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1903.New York State. The Tenement House Law : enacted by the Legislature of the state of NewYork, 1901, with amendments to the law enacted 1902, and diagrams of tenements :Chapter 334 of the Laws of the state of New York for 1901. Building Code of New York City: providing for all matters concerning, affecting, or relating to the construction, alteration orremoval of buildings, or structures erected or to be erected in the city of New York, asconstituted by the Greater New York Charter. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1902.New York State. The Tenement House Law of the State of New York. Including allamendments to June, 1918. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1918.

New York State. The tenement house law of the State of New York. Including allamendments to July, 1919. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1919.New York State. The tenement house law of the State of New York. Including allamendments to July, 1921. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1921.New York State. The tenement house law of the State of New York. Including allamendments to June, 1923. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1923.New York State. The Tenement House Law of the State of New York. Including allamendments to June, 1924. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1924.New York State. The Tenement House Law of the State of New York. Including allamendments to June, 1926. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1926.New York State. The tenement houses of New York City: a contribution to the study by TheTenement House Building Co. New York : Albert B. King, 1891.New York State. Dept. of Health. The tenement house problem in New York : for theinformation of the Commission on Legislation Affecting Tenement and Lodging Houses,provided for in Chapter 84, Laws of 1887. New York: Health Dept., 1887United Real Estate Owners Association. The tenement house law of the city of New York.(Law of April 12th, 1901). New York, P.G. Dux ,1901.New York State. The TenementHouse Act. (Chapters 334 and 555, laws of 1901; chapter 352, laws of 1902; chapter 179,laws of 1903; chapters 346 and 739, laws of 1904.) Prepared for the Tenement HouseDepartment. New York: M.B. Brown,1904.Historic Preservation – related to the museum building and other buildings within theneighborhood.Preservation League of New York State. Preservation: BuildingNew York, 1981.Community Identity:Shaver, Peter D. The National Register of Historic Places in New York State. New York:Preservation League of New York State, 1993.Tyler, Norman. Historic Preservation: An Introduction to its History, Principles and Practice.New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 2000.Immigration – In general and for specific immigrants represented by the museum, Jewish,Germans, Italians, Chinese, etc.Abbott, Edith. Imagination: Select Documents and Case Records. Chicago: University ofChicago Press, 1924.American History 102: Foreign Immigrants in Industrial America.http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture08.html. Nov 2002.Ellis Island. http://www.genealogytoday.com/topics/ellis.htm. Nov 2002.

The Changing Character of Immigration.http://www.history.ohiostate.edu/projects/immigration/CharacterofImmigration/CharacterImmigration.htm. Nov, 2002.The Foreign Immigrant in New York City. http://www.mnsmc.edu/history/clag1.html.Nov, 2002The Second Wave: European Immigration from 1850-1920.http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/educators/workshop/european/wimmlink.html#ellis.Nov, 2002.Charles C. Abbott. The New York bond market, 1920-1930. Cambridge, Harvard UniversityPress, 1937.Complete guide to the daily attractions and points of interest in New York.Apr. 23-Dec. 23, 1917.Josephine Chase. New York at school: a description of the activities and administration ofthe public schools of the city of New York. Public education association of the city of NewYork, 1927.Forner, Nancy. New immigrants in New York. New York, 2001.From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration. New Haven, 2000.Higman, John. Strangers In the Land. New York, 1955.Kerner, Thomas and H. Fiorello. La Guardia And The Making of Modern New York. NewYork, 1989.Kuo Wei J. Tchen. New York before Chinatown : Orientalism and the shaping of Americanculture, 1776-1882. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.Morrison, J. and Zabusky C.F. American Mosaic: The Immigrant Experience in the Wordsof Those Who Lived It. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980.“New York at work, 1898-1948 : a report / by the Mayor's Committee for theCommemoration of the Golden Anniversary of the City of New York”, New York: s.n., 1948.New York bicycle directory : a hand-book of manufacturers of bicycles and accessories.New York, 1896.NYC Department of City Planning. The Newest New Yorkers 1990-1994 and 1995-1996.New York, 1996, 1999.O’Neil T. ed. Immigration: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1992.Reimer, David. Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration.New York, 1998.Still The Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America. New York, 1992.

Uhl, Lauren. “The Kins House: Museum of the American Immigrant Experience.” HistoryNews Spring 1996.Weiner, Myrna Rieur. “New York Inside Out: An exhibition and Experiment in Collecting 20 thCentury New York.” History News Summer 2000.Wheeler, C.W. ed. The Immigrant Experience: The Anguish of Becoming American. NY:Penguin, 1971.Wirt Howe. New York at the turn of the century, 1899-1916. Toronto: Priv. print,1946.Wilson & Co.'s weekly dispatch, New York: Wilson & Co., 1849-1851.ChineseAdler, Joseph Alan. Chinese religious traditions. Upper Saddle River,N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2002.Carus, Paul. Chinese life and customs, by Paul Carus; illustrated by Chinese artists.Chicago: The Open court publishing company, 1907.Celebrations, Holidays and Customs.http://www.newton.mec.edu/Angier/DimSum/china__dim_sum__celebratio.html. Nov, 2002.Chinese Festivals and Holidays. http://www.c-cc.org/chineseculture/festival/festival.html.Nov, 2002Eberhard, Wolfram. A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols.London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1986.Giskin, Howard and Bettye S. Walsh. An introduction to Chinese culture through the family.Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.Holidays & Traditions: Chinese Holidays.http://library.thinkquest.org/18802/chinhol.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=1120 Nov, 2002.GermansCobb, Sanford H. The Palatine, or, German immigration to New York and Pennsylvania: apaper read before the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. Wilkes-Barry, Pa: TheSociety, 1897.German Culture. http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/links/holidays.htm. Nov, 2002.German and German-American Customs, Traditions, Origins of Holidays.http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/customs.htm Nov, 2002Lemcke, Ernst Eduard. An illustrated grammar of skat, the German game of cards. Abibliography of skat. New York: B. Westermann & co., 1887.

Nadel, Stanley. Little Germany: Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in New York City, 1845-1880.Chicago 1990.Tolzmann, Don Heinrich, ed. German pioneer life: a social history.Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1992.Wellauer, Maralyn A. German immigration to America in the nineteenth century : agenealogist's guide. Milwaukee, Wis.: Roots International, 1985.ItaliansBetty B. Caroli, Robert F. Harney, and Lydio F. Tomasi, “The Italian immigrant woman inNorth America : proceedings of the tenth annual conference of the American ItalianHistorical Association”, Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1978.Del Giudice, Luisa, ed. Italian traditional song. Santa Monica, CA: Italian Heritage CultureFoundation, 1989.Easter in the Italian Tradition. http://www.notti.it/special/pasqua/Welcomeb.html. Nov, 2002.Gabaccia, Donna R. From Sicily to Elizabeth Street: Housing and Social Change AmongItalian Immigrants, 1880-1930. Albany, NY: 1984.Italian Language: Holidays and Festivals. http://italian.about.com/cs/festivalsholidays/.Nov, 2002Kesner, Thomas. The Golden Door: Italians and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New YorkCity, 1880-1915. New York, 1977.Lawrence F. Pisani. The Italian in America, a social study and history. New York:Exposition Press, 1957.Lydio F. Tomasi. The Italian in America: the progressive view, 1891-1914.New York, Center for Migration Studies, 1972.Mary E. Brown. Italian immigrants and the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of New York1880-1950 [microform]. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1987.Salvatore Mondello. “The Italian immigrant in urban America, 1880-1920.” TheContemporary Periodical Press. New York: Arno Press, 1980.JewsGilman, Sander L. and Milton Shain. Jewries at the frontier: accommodation, identity,conflict. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.Hacker L. “The Communal Life of the Sephardic Jewish of New York.” The Jewish SocialService Quarterly Dec,1926.Jewish Holidays and Festivals on the Net. http://www.melizo.com/festivals/. Nov, 2002.Jewish Holiday. http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday0.htm. Nov, 2002.

Joselit, Jenna Weisman. The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture, 1880-1950New York. New York, 1994.Kesner, Thomas. The Golden Door: Italians and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New YorkCity, 1880-1915. New York, 1977.Moore, Deborah Dash. At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews. NewYork, 1981.Rischin, Moses. The Promised Land: New York’s Jews, 1870-1914. Cambridge, MA, 1962.Rischin, Moses, ed. The Jews of North America. Detroit, 1987.Rubenstein, Shmuel. The Jewish funeral: an illustrated analysis of the laws and customsgoverning the Jewish funeral. Bronx, N. Y.: S. Rubenstein, 1977.Stein, G. Marguerite, Journey of a Sephardic Woman. Morgantown, PA: Masthol Press,1997.The Jewish Communal Register Of New York City 1917-1918. New York, 1918.Weisser, Michael. A Brotherhood of Memory: Jewish Landsmanshaftn in the New World.New York, 1985.YiddishBirnbaum, Salomo A. Yiddish, a survey and a grammar. Toronto; Buffalo: University ofToronto Press, 1979.Galvin, Herman. The Yiddish Dictionary Sourcebook : a transliterated guide to the Yiddishlanguage. Hoboken, New Jersey: Ktav, 1986.Harkavy, Alexander. English-Yiddish Dictionary. New York : Hebrew Publishing Co., 1891.Heskes, Irene. Yiddish American popular songs, 1895 to 1950 : a catalog based on theLawrence Marwick roster of copyright entries. Washington: Library of Congress,1992.Shepard, Richard F. Live & Be Well : A Celebration of Yiddish Culture in America from theFirst Immigrants to the Second World War. New York : Ballantine Books, 1982.Steinmetz, Sol. Yiddish and Eniglish: a century of Yiddish in America. Alabama: Universityof Alabama Press, 1986.Yiddish and English: the story of Yiddish in America. Tuscalussa: University of AlabamaPress, 2001.Weinstein, Miriam. Yiddish: a nation of words. South Royalton Vermont:Press, 2001.Steerforth

Women’s History/InterpretationHowe, Barbara J. and Helen M. Bannan. “Women’s History, Local History,and Public History.” History News. Vol.50, No.2, March/April 1995:7-11.Levin, Louis. The Women Garment Workers: A History of the International Ladies’ GarmentWorkers Union. New York: B.W. Huebsch Inc, 1924.National Park Service. Exploring A Common Past: Interpreting Women’s History in theNational Park Service. National Park Service, 1996Reid, Debra. “A Story to Pass On: Interpreting Women in Historic Sites and Open-AirMuseums.” History News, Vol. 50, No2, March/April 1995:12-15.Strasser, Susan. Never Done: A History of American Housework. New York, 1982.Garment Industry/Sweatshops/Immigrant WorkAmerica’s Social History Project. Who Builds America? Working People and the Nation’sEconomy, Politics, Culture, and Society. New York, 1992.Ching Yoon Louie, Miriam. Sweatshops Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on theGlobal Factory. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2001.Gamber, Wendy. The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930. PhD dissertation: Brandies University, 1991.Green, Nancy. Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrantsin Paris and New York. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.Kosak, Hadassah. Cultures of Opposition: Jewish Immigrant workers, New York City, 1881-1905. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.Kwon, Peter. Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor. NewYork: New Press, 1997.Liebhold, Peter and Harry R. Rubenstein. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A history ofAmerican Sweatshops, 1820-Present. Los Angeles, 1999.Rennolds Milbank, Caroline. New York Fashion-The Evolution of American Style. NewYork: Harry Abrams, 1996.Soyer, Daniel. Sweatshops in the New York Garment Industry: The Jewish Era, ca.1880-ca.1920. Resident fellow, The Sweatshop Project 1997.Stein, Leon. Out of the Sweatshop: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy. New York:Quadrangle, 1977.Waldinger, Roger D. Through the Eyes of the Needle: Immigrant and Enterprise in NewYork’s Garment Trades. New York: NYU Press, 1986.

Disease and IllnessBrown, M.D. Lawrson. The Story of Clinical Tuberculosis. Baltimore: Williams & Drolet,Godias & Wilkins Company, 1941.Drolet, Godias and Anthony M. Lowell. A Half Century’s Progress Against Tuberculosis inNew York City, 1900 to1950. New York: New York Tuberculosis & Health Association,1952.Kraut, Alan. Silent Travelers: Germs and the Immigrant Menace. New York,1994.Markel. Howard. Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of1892. Baltimore,1997.Rosner. David, ed. Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in NYC. New Jersey,1995.Roy MacLeod and Milton Lewis. Disease, medicine, and empire : perspectives on Westernmedicine and the experience of European expansion. New York: Routledge, 1988.Terra D. Ziporyn. Disease in the popular American press: the case of diphtheria, typhoidfever, and syphilis, 1870-1920. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.Terminology ListAccession- A formal act of entering an object into the collection of a museum. ***ADA-American With Disability Act is a Department of Justice regulation which prohibitdiscrimination on the basis of disability in a all services, programs, and activities provided tothe general public (title II); and in places of public accommodation (title III). (As defined inUS Department of Justice)Assistant Curator-Under supervision of curator, responsible for cataloging, care andmaintenance of collection. ***Cataloguing-Organized classification system. *Collections- Collected objects of a museum, with own value as examples, referencematerial, aesthetics and education. *Collection Management-Ensuring the effective documentation, preservation, and accessto objects in a museum collection. ***Conservator-Responsible for examination, repairs and conservation of art objects. ***Curator-Responsible for the care and academic interpretation of all objects belonging orlent to the museum. Responsible for selecting, scheduling and curating of exhibitions. ***Director of Education-Develops, implements, evaluates and/or supervises the museum’seducational programs with the goal of enhancing public access to and understanding andinterpretation of the collections and resources. ***

Director, Manager, President-Chief Executive Officer of the Institution. Responsible forpolicymaking, funding, planning, organizing, staffing ad-directing activities through staff. ***Director of Development-Responsible for development of museum support, includingmembership. ***Docent, Guide, Interpreter- see educator- Trained staff or volunteer who provideseducational tours for museum visitors. ***Education Assistant-Under the supervision of education director helps develop, organizeand implements educational programs. ***Educator-A specialist in the theory and practice of education. Person in charge of theeducation programming in a museum setting. (Definition from The American HeritageDictionary. Third Edition, 1997.)Exhibition- Assemblage of objects designed to be meaningful, instructional andaesthetical, in which visitors can move through. *First person Interpretation-The act of portraying a person from the past (real orcomposite). Interpreters refer to the past in the present tense; employ a combination oftechniques including storytelling, demonstration, question and answer and discussion.(Definition extracted from ALHFAM web page Glossary compiled by Stacy F. Roth)Interpretation--The media/activities through which a museum carries out its mission andeducational role: Interpretation is a dynamical process of communication between themuseum and the audience; Interpretation is the means by which the museum delivers itscontents; Interpretation media/activities include, but not limited to exhibits, tours, web sites,classes, school programs, publications, outreach. (As defined by AAM)Living History-Costumed role-players portraying life in a different time. Recreates aparticular time and place in the past ignoring the intrusions of the present bringing history tolife. (As defined by ALHFAM)Membership Assistant-Compiles and maintain membership list; process and providesinformation to members of the institution’s supporting organization. ***Museum-Various definitions:Cultural and educational institutions, community-centered, places for remembering,discovering and learning. They present the best of the world’s culture, heritage andachievement. Museums help preserve the past, define the present, and educate for thefuture. (As defined by AAM)**A non-profit making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its developmentand open to the public, which acquires, conserves, communicate and exhibit, for purposesof study, education and enjoyment, material evidence of people and their environment. (Asdefined by ICOM)A public or private nonprofit agency or institution organized on a permanent basis foressentially educational or aesthetic purposes, which utilizing a professional staff, owns orutilizes tangible objects, care for them, and exhibits them to the public on a regular basis.(As defined by Museum and Library Services)

An object in a museum collection collected for its own sake. *An item which forms part of an institution’s collection either permanently or temporarily. ***Registration- A permanent and unique number assigned for identification in accordancewith a specific system. *Shop Associate/Store Manager-Oversees museum store operations. **** Excerpted from Introduction to Museum Work**Excerpted from AAM definition for American’s Museum*** Definitions and excerpted from CIDOC (International Committee for Documentation ofthe International Council Museums)