Haverhill's Immigrants at the Turn of the Century

by Patricia Trainor O'Malley

Book Overview

Haverhill's immigrants--they came for the jobs that were so plentiful in the booming shoe industry. They came to flee poverty, insecurity, and massacres. They came because their relatives had come before them, or because they would find old neighbors in this new place. Haverhill, Massachusetts, in the early twentieth century was a magnet for newcomers. They came from such diverse and faraway places as Asia Minor and Eastern Europe. They were Poles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073856429X
• ISBN13: 9780738564296
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.1"