"Two Views of a Dead Rabbit"
This essay examines two images of members of an Irish street gang in the mid-nineteenth century that address issues of immigrant stereotyping, urban immigration, poverty, and reform in the wake of large-scale Irish immigration. The link includes the essay and both of the images under discussion.
External Link: picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu
Source | Joshua Brown, "Two Views of a Dead Rabbit," 2008, from Picturing U.S. History: An Interactive Resource for Teaching with Visual Evidence by American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=168.
Creator | Joshua Brown
Rights | Copyright American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States License.
Item Type | Hyperlink
Cite This document | Joshua Brown, “"Two Views of a Dead Rabbit",” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed October 2, 2023, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1676.
Creator | Joshua Brown
Rights | Copyright American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States License.
Item Type | Hyperlink
Cite This document | Joshua Brown, “"Two Views of a Dead Rabbit",” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed October 2, 2023, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1676.
