In the 1900s, America's population began to increase very quickly with immigrants coming by the thousands. To make room for the new people, single family homes were divided to make tenements to try and squeeze as many people into one house as they could. Most tenements were very small, dirty, unlit, and had no electricity. Living in tenements was not really an ideal place to live. The image I chose shows a tenement "kitchen". It has some pots and pans but in reality its not a kitchen. I chose this picture because I was shocked that people had to prepare their meals here. You can tell from the picture that the room is very small and extremely dirty. A kitchen is a place to prepare food and eat it, in my opinion the kitchen should be the cleanest room in the house. But sadly, in the case of tenement houses, every room was very dirty and run down.
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