Bridge #4: annotated bibliography

1. Schorman, Rob. “The Garment Industry and Retailing in the United States.” In Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion: The United States and Canada, edited by Phyllis G. Tortora, 87–96. Oxford: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010. Accessed November 29, 2016. I chose this book because it shows the developments of the U.S. garment industry through the Mid-Nineteenth Century.  The sweatshop is important to subject matter in this period with home dressmaking.
2. Lower East Side Tenement Museum, A Tenement Story. New York: Lower East Side Tenement Museum, 2016.  This book was published by the Lower East Side Tenement Museum which was built in 1863 and has preserved since then.  The book contains tenants who used to live the building and they were early immigrants in the Bowery.  I observed the remains of the European immigrant and heard their life at the museum, and this book includes everything that I saw and heard.  I decided to use this book as my source because I would like to write the vivid story of them.
3. Mulkins, David. “Windows on the Bowery.” Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, http://www.boweryalliance.org.  This source supports the idea of why the Bowery is a significant area of the early immigrants.  It also illustrates essential places on the map of the Bowery and demonstrated why those places are crucial throughout like storytelling.  It lists the places and incidents that good to know, and many of them are related to the immigrants which I need in my papers.  Although that information is interesting, since it indicates the specific area, the Bowery, I necessitate selecting in order to concentrate the immigrant story.
4. Surrogate’s Court, City and Country of New York, “The matter of the application for the letters of administration upon the estate of Nathalie Gumpertz,” 1894.  This paper is extremely important in the history of immigrants in the United States because the judge decided the property belonged to the Nathalia Gumpertz, who was an immigrant from Germany and a married woman.  This was a significant judgment for the immigrant society at that time, and she became the first married woman who had her own property.  This was a trigger for the woman rights.