Fennelly, K. orcid.org/0000-0002-4884-6043 (2023) Mapping poverty in Gotham: visualizing New York city’s Almshouse Ledgers from 1822 to 1835. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 27 (3). pp. 671-687. ISSN 1092-7697
Abstract
This paper maps and spatializes the Almshouse Ledger records for the children of unmarried parents in New York City in the 1820 and 1830s. Mapping the distribution of poverty and the provision of forms of welfare in the city, this paper illustrates specific areas of the city which were attracting the very poor as early as the second decade of the nineteenth century. This paper argues that migrants from countries with similar welfare systems to those established in New York may be overrepresented in the record due to familiarity with the system. This interdisciplinary paper combines archaeological approaches to GIS with archival research to illustrate the distribution of welfare provision.
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Keywords: | Poverty; Migration; GIS; Institutions |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Archaeology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 Sep 2023 08:40 |
Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2023 08:41 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s10761-022-00671-6 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:203020 |