In 1900, while living in this tenement, they had a son, Manuel Nunes Cotta, Jr. He would be their only child. As with many immigrants who rented their residence, the Cotta family moved a number of ...

The Tenement Museum in New York City offers visitors a unique opportunity to step back in time and experience what life was like for immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

For nearly 50 years a large number of the city’s Irish lived here in the various tenements multiple-family homes ... that formed the largest immigrant community in this locale. A majority belonged to ...

The housing in Glasgow and Dundee was mostly tenements which were cheaply built and crammed together. They were often damp and cold. Overcrowding was common and large families were forced to live ...

Other more prosperous immigrants lived in a‘room and kitchen’. The tenements lacked washing facilities and toilets. These were usually shared and located in separate buildings and water was ...