Growing Up in the Living Room

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library

Date: 1987, 2017; 1987 Material: Essay manuscript Dimension: 8.5 x 11 inches; 2 pages

Creator: Amy Brook Snider Identifier: aql:33608 qmp-snider-amy-brook-essay qmp-snider-amy-brook-essay.pdf

Description: In this essay Amy Brook Snider (1940 - 2018) writes about growing up in a one bedroom apartment in Sunnyside on 45th Street between Skillman and 43rd Avenues with her parents Silas and Clara Snider (née Fox) and her younger sister Jenny. She describes life in a small space in the late 40's and early 50's, the ethnic make-up of the neighborhood, and going to school at P.S. 150. Amy was an instructor and administrator at Pratt Institute, and served as Chair of Art and Design Education, from 1980-2011.

Title : Growing Up in the Living Room

Collection : aql:13844; aql:33733

Creator : Amy Brook Snider

Date : 1987, 2017; 1987

Summary/Description : In this essay Amy Brook Snider (1940 - 2018) writes about growing up in a one bedroom apartment in Sunnyside on 45th Street between Skillman and 43rd Avenues with her parents Silas and Clara Snider (née Fox) and her younger sister Jenny. She describes life in a small space in the late 40's and early 50's, the ethnic make-up of the neighborhood, and going to school at P.S. 150. Amy was an instructor and administrator at Pratt Institute, and served as Chair of Art and Design Education, from 1980-2011.

Subject : Biography; Children; Snider, Amy Brook (1940 - 2018); P.S. 150

Relation : Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library

Rights : Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Sunnyside, Queens, NY Sunnyside (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Essay manuscript

Format : Essay manuscript; 8.5 x 11 inches; 2 pages

Identifier : aql:33608 qmp-snider-amy-brook-essay qmp-snider-amy-brook-essay.pdf