Rebecca Yamin’s scientific contributions

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Publications (3)


Children's Strikes, Parents' Rights: Paterson and Five Points
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June 2002

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32 Citations

International Journal of Historical Archaeology

Rebecca Yamin

While Karen Calvert's book, Children in the House, deals with middle-class play, there is very little work devoted to children's toys and games in a working-class context. This paper uses the toy assemblages from two working-class sites to begin a discussion of working-class play and the struggle nineteenth-century working-class parents waged to impart their own values to their children. Because marbles were the predominant toy recovered from both sites, the nature of the game is discussed, and its relationship to working-class values is considered.



From tanning to tea: The evolution of a neighborhood

September 2001

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26 Reads

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7 Citations

Historical Archaeology

This study traces the transformation of an outlying industrial district in lower Manhattan into one of the city?s most densely populated working-class neighborhoods-Five Points. Using census research conducted for the Foley Square/Five Points project, the demographic as well as physical changes are discussed in the context of the district?s reputation as the city?s most notorious 19th-century slum. The evolving spatial organization of one of the excavated lots is used to provide a picture of living conditions and a backdrop for the interpretive studies that fill the rest of the volume.

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... Scholarship on migration to New York in the nineteenth century is well-established across the humanities and social sciences. Irish migrants have received particular attention, especially in historical archaeology where the remains of neighborhoods and streets in areas like Five Points have turned up domestic assemblages pointing to material markers of identity (Yamin 2001). Recent research in the history of medicine has tackled the issue of over-representation of Irish migrants in lunatic asylums and other institutions. ...

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Mapping Poverty in Gotham: Visualizing New York City’s Almshouse Ledgers from 1822 to 1835
Introduction: Becoming New York: The Five Points neighborhood
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  • September 2001

Historical Archaeology

... Accordingly the triumvirate of marbles, miniature teasets and china dolls is almost ubiquitous in archaeological childhood toy research. These were discussed by Prosser with regard to the Australian Thomas family, and in her study of the Five Points and Paterson working class children's toys in the US these are the items that Yamin (2002) predominantly discusses, as they share the attributes of cheapness and durability. This relationship between archaeological durability and childhood toys has been touched on in the New Zealand context by Veart (2014: 49-51), particularly in relation to ceramic dolls. ...

Children's Strikes, Parents' Rights: Paterson and Five Points
  • Citing Article
  • June 2002

International Journal of Historical Archaeology