The Lower East Side Tenement Museum:

Preserving Yesterday's HISTORY for Tomorrow's

GENERATIONS

Rosemary KiladitisVCARA Conference, May 24, 2011

San José State University School of Library & Information Science

"They used to go to the Italian theatre... my

father loved the movies. Shoot 'em up, bang

bang, cowboy pictures, those were his

favorite." Josephine Baldizzi, lived at 97

Orchard between 1928-1935

“[My mother] worked very hard in a

factory… in fact, she worked in a sweatshop.

She’d wash dishes, she’d do anything to make

a dollar. She was a hard-working woman.”

Josephine Baldizzi

Life, in their own words… Oral Histories

Glimpses into lives past… Artifacts and Documents

FOR REAL: Webcomics depicting the true stories of immigrant teens today, preserving their

stories for the future and linking the past with the present

TENEMENT-MUSEUM.BLOGSPOT.COM

Interacts with Facebook users on Wall

Features blog posts and photo albums

Promotes events and invites discussion on discussion boards

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lower-East-Side-Tenement-Museum/114377373747?ref=ts

FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/TENEMENT