Primary Source Collection 4:
Descriptions of Work


   This collection consists of documents describing aspects of jobs that were practiced in the Fourth Ward. Some of the documents describe workers outside of the ward, but all of the jobs described were common here.

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4.2: Seamstresses 
 4.3:   Printers
4.4:   Servants
4.5:  Brewers 

The Fourth Ward:
Life and Death in New York, 1860-1870

  Primary Source Collections
  1) Maps of the Neighborhood and City
  2) The People
  3) Living Conditions
  4) Work in Industrializing New York
  5) Crime
  6) Saloons and Brothels
  7) Neighborhood Institutions
  8) The Draft Riot
  9) Images of the Neighborhood Today