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Memorial for the European immigrants in the tourist alley Caminito in the dockland area La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sou...
Memorial for the European immigrants in the tourist alley Caminito in the dockland area La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America
Miners in an open tram at the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, one of the largest and most profitable copper mines in Americ...
Miners in an open tram at the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, one of the largest and most profitable copper mines in American in the late 19th and early 20th century, employing 5000 people. The mining superintendents were traditionally Cornishmen; the workers were Finns, Poles, Italians, Irish, and other immigrant nationalities. 1906.
A view of the Ellis Island Registry Room the Great Hall from the 2nd floor balcony inside the Ellis Island Immigration Museum...
A view of the Ellis Island Registry Room the Great Hall from the 2nd floor balcony inside the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. The Museum is part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument.
Japanese American men from Seattle, Washington sit outside a barracks during their four month stay at Puyallup Assembly Cente...
Japanese American men from Seattle, Washington sit outside a barracks during their four month stay at Puyallup Assembly Center in 1942. The Relocation Authority named the temporary internment facility, 'Camp Harmony.' The internees in turn named their barracks the 'The Waldorf Astoria.'
Scene from the July 4, 1857 riot in the Sixth Ward, New York City between the 'Bowery Boys' and the 'Dead Rabbits' showing wo...
Scene from the July 4, 1857 riot in the Sixth Ward, New York City between the 'Bowery Boys' and the 'Dead Rabbits' showing women and men throwing brickbats down on the police. GANGS OF NEW YORK, Martin Scorsese's 2002 was based on the rivalry between these two gangs.
Four of approximately 100 German sailors who were civilian aliens under custody of the U.S. Immigration Service. Their first ...
Four of approximately 100 German sailors who were civilian aliens under custody of the U.S. Immigration Service. Their first stop would be Ellis Island, then most would spend the remaining years of World War II interned in Fort Lincoln, Bismarck, North Dakota. May 7, 1941.
German Lutheran Meetinghouse during the autumn months. Located in Waldoboro, Maine USA This church and cemetery is listed on ...
German Lutheran Meetinghouse during the autumn months. Located in Waldoboro, Maine USA This church and cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of the three oldest chruches in Maine
Mexican man on a donkey cart emigrating to the United States via Nuevo Laredo, directly across the Rio Grande River from Lare...
Mexican man on a donkey cart emigrating to the United States via Nuevo Laredo, directly across the Rio Grande River from Laredo, Texas. Ca. 1912.
On the airfield at Amman, Jordan, April 1921: T E Lawrence, Sir Herbert Samuel (British High Commissioner of Palestine), Emir...
On the airfield at Amman, Jordan, April 1921: T E Lawrence, Sir Herbert Samuel (British High Commissioner of Palestine), Emir Abdullah. Woman far left, possibly Gertrude Bell. Sheik Majid Pasha el Adwan, far right.
NEW YORK CITY, an immigrant and his baby on the streets of the Lower East Side in 1907. Photograph is called, 'Fresh Air For ...
NEW YORK CITY, an immigrant and his baby on the streets of the Lower East Side in 1907. Photograph is called, 'Fresh Air For the Baby, New York Eastside.' taken by Lewis W. Hine.
Mexican-American young women working as carrot pullers in Edinburg, Texas. February 1939 photograph by Russell Lee.
German aliens leaving the Deutsche Seaman Mission on Hudson Street for Ellis island in the custody of U.S. Immigration Servic...
German aliens leaving the Deutsche Seaman Mission on Hudson Street for Ellis island in the custody of U.S. Immigration Service agents. They were unable to work for their employers after war broke out in Europe. May 7, 1941.
The Italian Rowing Club, established in 1910 by members of the Italian immigrant community, is situated in a fine building on...
The Italian Rowing Club, established in 1910 by members of the Italian immigrant community, is situated in a fine building on the Parana Delta.
Shop window of the Japanese American owned Asahi Dye Works in Los Angeles' 'Little Tokyo.' The sign reads, 'Closing, we won't...
Shop window of the Japanese American owned Asahi Dye Works in Los Angeles' 'Little Tokyo.' The sign reads, 'Closing, we won't take it to Owens Valley for U,' urging customers to pick up their clothes before the Japanese-American owners were interned at Owens Valley Assembly Center. April 1942.
Mexican-American farm laborer bent over picking melons in the Imperial Valley, California. May 1937 photograph by Dorothea La...
Mexican-American farm laborer bent over picking melons in the Imperial Valley, California. May 1937 photograph by Dorothea Lange.
Anthony Anastasia (right) after his arrest by immigration authorities on charges of entering the country illegally. The broth...
Anthony Anastasia (right) after his arrest by immigration authorities on charges of entering the country illegally. The brother of Albert Anastasia, reputed former executioner of Murder Inc., jumped ship with his brothers, Albert, Gerardo and Salvatore in 1919. March 27, 1951.
Engraving of a hot summer night in the German neighborhood of New York. Many U.S. cities have 'Germantowns,' which evolved fr...
Engraving of a hot summer night in the German neighborhood of New York. Many U.S. cities have 'Germantowns,' which evolved from the immigrant's communities, such as Yorkville, on the upper East side of Manhattan. 1878 engraving from Harper's Monthly.
View of Chinatown in San Francisco, California in 1870s. From American Pictures Drawn With Pen And Pencil by Rev Samuel Manni...
View of Chinatown in San Francisco, California in 1870s. From American Pictures Drawn With Pen And Pencil by Rev Samuel Manning circa 1880
A LETTER FROM PAT IN AMERICA. Young Irish woman reading a letter from a relative in America to an older woman outside of a th...
A LETTER FROM PAT IN AMERICA. Young Irish woman reading a letter from a relative in America to an older woman outside of a thatch-roofed stone cottage.
Triangle Shirtwaist fire victims in coffins on the sidewalk. 146 women seamstresses died, mostly immigrants, many jumping fro...
Triangle Shirtwaist fire victims in coffins on the sidewalk. 146 women seamstresses died, mostly immigrants, many jumping from the upper two floors of an eight story building. March 15, 1911.
USA, New York City, Statue Of Liberty, People Kissing Foot Of Statue, 1951, Ourania Zaphiropoulos And Panaghiotis Karandreas,...
USA, New York City, Statue Of Liberty, People Kissing Foot Of Statue, 1951, Ourania Zaphiropoulos And Panaghiotis Karandreas, Two Of 32 Greek DP's Who Arrived Here Yesterday, Kiss The Ground At Foot Of Statue. 1951
German Lutheran Meetinghouse during the autumn months. Located in Waldoboro, Maine USA This church and cemetery is listed on ...
German Lutheran Meetinghouse during the autumn months. Located in Waldoboro, Maine USA This church and cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of the three oldest chruches in Maine
READING WALL NOTICES, From Arnold Genthe's CHINATOWN SERIES. Chinese immigrants in San Francisco. Ca. 1900.
Chinese theater, San Francisco, California in 1870s. From American Pictures Drawn With Pen And Pencil by Rev Samuel Manning c...
Chinese theater, San Francisco, California in 1870s. From American Pictures Drawn With Pen And Pencil by Rev Samuel Manning circa 1880
Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884), was the first professing Jew elected to the U.S. Senate. He represented Louisiana and held thr...
Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884), was the first professing Jew elected to the U.S. Senate. He represented Louisiana and held three cabinet positions in the Confederate government during the U.S. Civil War. He continued his successful legal career in England after 1865.
Gang labor of Mexicans and white Americans on a large carrot truck farm in California's Imperial Valley. Because of surplus w...
Gang labor of Mexicans and white Americans on a large carrot truck farm in California's Imperial Valley. Because of surplus workers during the Great Depression with these workers made only one dollar a day. February 1939 photograph by Dorothea Lange.
Ellis Island provided new immigrants with services to prevent their exploitation by dishonest moneychangers. The Money Exchan...
Ellis Island provided new immigrants with services to prevent their exploitation by dishonest moneychangers. The Money Exchange converted their currencies without charge. Ca. 1910 .
Emigrants on the open deck of an immigrant steamship to Canada, site land after at least two weeks at sea. The ship, GANGES, ...
Emigrants on the open deck of an immigrant steamship to Canada, site land after at least two weeks at sea. The ship, GANGES, carried 761 people who paid 3 British pounds for their passage. People on deck engage in play, music, talk, smoking and looking through telescopes. April-May, 1871.
View of Chinatown in San Francisco California in 1870s From American Pictures Drawn With Pen And Pencil by Rev Samuel Manning...
View of Chinatown in San Francisco California in 1870s From American Pictures Drawn With Pen And Pencil by Rev Samuel Manning circa 1880
Loss of White Star Line's Olympic-class vessel RMS Titanic which struck an iceberg on 12 April 1912 on her maiden voyage. Sur...
Loss of White Star Line's Olympic-class vessel RMS Titanic which struck an iceberg on 12 April 1912 on her maiden voyage. Surviving wireless operator, Harold Bride, feet bandaged, being carried up gangway, New York. Disaster
Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles. Youthful Zoot Suiters, all packed into a Los Angeles jail cell during the undeclared war betw...
Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles. Youthful Zoot Suiters, all packed into a Los Angeles jail cell during the undeclared war between service me and Zoot Suiters. June 8, 1943.
Uncle Sam's lodging-house. Print shows an Irishman berating Uncle Sam in a boarding house filled with laborers, immigrants fr...
Uncle Sam's lodging-house. Print shows an Irishman berating Uncle Sam in a boarding house filled with laborers, immigrants from several countries who are attempting to sleep. chromolithograph. June, 1882
A stairway inside the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. The Museum is part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument.
Russian men, women, and children in traditional dress posing in near a passenger train in a Siberian field. In 1906 the Russi...
Russian men, women, and children in traditional dress posing in near a passenger train in a Siberian field. In 1906 the Russian government encouraged farmers to emigrant to Siberia. Settlers were given land, transportation and loans to start their farms. From 1897-1914 the Siberian population grew by 73%. Photo ca. 1910.
Rural women examining the wares offered by the peddler. Many Jewish immigrants started their retail careers as peddlers throu...
Rural women examining the wares offered by the peddler. Many Jewish immigrants started their retail careers as peddlers throughout rural America. Ca. 1860s.
DOING THE SLUMS. A policeman leading three well dressed upper class people through the Five Points neighborhood of New York C...
DOING THE SLUMS. A policeman leading three well dressed upper class people through the Five Points neighborhood of New York City. 1885 wood engraving.
Seven Ashkenazi Jewish men, a woodburytype illustration in UNDERGROUND JERUSALEM of 1876, a book about Sir Charles Warren's e...
Seven Ashkenazi Jewish men, a woodburytype illustration in UNDERGROUND JERUSALEM of 1876, a book about Sir Charles Warren's excavations and discoveries in Jerusalem under the sponsorship of the British Palestine Exploration Fund. 1876.
Paris, France, Street Scene, French-Chinese Male Teen in Traditional Costumes Parading in Chinese new years Carnival in Stree...
Paris, France, Street Scene, French-Chinese Male Teen in Traditional Costumes Parading in Chinese new years Carnival in Street in the Chinatown Area
High angle view of workers constructing railroad track, Secrettown Trestle, Sacramento, California, USA, 1867
Alberto Santos-Dumont's airship No. 14 on the sands at Trouville, France. From 'La Vie au Grand Air', Paris, 1 September 1905...
Alberto Santos-Dumont's airship No. 14 on the sands at Trouville, France. From 'La Vie au Grand Air', Paris, 1 September 1905. Dirigible Steerable Aviation Aeronautics
Amana, Iowa - A worker runs a warping creel at the Amana Woolen Mill The machine gathers up to 240 strands of yarn that will ...
Amana, Iowa - A worker runs a warping creel at the Amana Woolen Mill The machine gathers up to 240 strands of yarn that will later be woven into cloth on a loom The Woolen Mill is one of the enterprises started when German immigrants established the com. Amana, Iowa - A worker runs a warping creel at the Amana Woolen Mill The machine gathers up to 240 strands of yarn that will later be woven into cloth on a loom The Woolen Mill is one of the enterprises started when German immigrants establi
Copy of President Ford Secretary of State Henry Kissinger with Mao Tse-Tung; Chairman of Chinese Communist Party, during a vi...
Copy of President Ford Secretary of State Henry Kissinger with Mao Tse-Tung; Chairman of Chinese Communist Party, during a visit to the Chairman
Out in the cold. Illustration of a woman and an immigrant Chinese man denied the right to vote; an Irish man and an African A...
Out in the cold. Illustration of a woman and an immigrant Chinese man denied the right to vote; an Irish man and an African American man mock them from the polling place. chromolithograph, March 1884
USA New Jersey Railroad ticket office for ferries to Ellis island and Ellis Island Immigration museum
Tents used as temporary housing for Jewish immigrants in Israel. From 1948 to 1951, over 700,000 immigrants entered Israel, m...
Tents used as temporary housing for Jewish immigrants in Israel. From 1948 to 1951, over 700,000 immigrants entered Israel, most were Holocaust survivors or Jews fleeing Arab lands. Ca. 1950.
The Civil War, I'm Going to Fight Mit Sigel. Sheet music celebrating the German immigrant support of the Union under General ...
The Civil War, I'm Going to Fight Mit Sigel. Sheet music celebrating the German immigrant support of the Union under General Sigel. In German dialect. ca. 1861-1862
Japanese-American merchant posts a sale sign on his San Francisco store in preparation for internment. Internees were given l...
Japanese-American merchant posts a sale sign on his San Francisco store in preparation for internment. Internees were given little notice and forced to abandon or sell their businesses at heavy losses.
San Francisco Examiner headline announcing internment of Japanese Americans during WW2. On February 19, 1942, Franklin D. Roo...
San Francisco Examiner headline announcing internment of Japanese Americans during WW2. On February 19, 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, requiring the incarceration of all 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent. February 1942 photograph by Dorothea Lange.
Crowds outside the Stock Exchange, New York, after the Wall Street Crash, October 1929. Stock Market
Forced emigration to the colony of Georgia in North America of debt ridden English lords, esquires, and attorneys, who were s...
Forced emigration to the colony of Georgia in North America of debt ridden English lords, esquires, and attorneys, who were sentenced to transportation to Georgia. The deportation of debtors reduced the English prison population during the early reign of George III.
Italian American mother with five young children in her Providence, Rhode Island home. Photograph by Lewis Hine, November 191...
Italian American mother with five young children in her Providence, Rhode Island home. Photograph by Lewis Hine, November 1912.
July 4, 1857 battle on Bayard Street of the Irish gang, the 'Dead Rabbits,' against the Bowery Boys, a nativist, anti-Catholi...
July 4, 1857 battle on Bayard Street of the Irish gang, the 'Dead Rabbits,' against the Bowery Boys, a nativist, anti-Catholic, and anti-Irish gang. Both gangs were based in the Five Points neighborhood of New York City. GANGS OF NEW YORK, Martin Scorsese's 2002 was based on the rivalry between these two gangs.
A young women reading on the steerage deck of an ocean liner approaching the Port of New York. Other women passengers, wrappe...
A young women reading on the steerage deck of an ocean liner approaching the Port of New York. Other women passengers, wrapped in blankets, sleep amid the hardware of the ship's equipment. Ca. 1910.
Multiple generations of Japanese Americans at meal time in the Manzanar Internment Camp barracks dining area.
Amana, Iowa - A worker runs a warping creel at the Amana Woolen Mill The machine gathers up to 240 strands of yarn that will ...
Amana, Iowa - A worker runs a warping creel at the Amana Woolen Mill The machine gathers up to 240 strands of yarn that will later be woven into cloth on a loom The Woolen Mill is one of the enterprises started when German immigrants established the com. Amana, Iowa - A worker runs a warping creel at the Amana Woolen Mill The machine gathers up to 240 strands of yarn that will later be woven into cloth on a loom The Woolen Mill is one of the enterprises started when German immigrants establi
Amana, Iowa - A worker sets up an embroidery machine at the Amana Woolen Mill The Woolen Mill is one of the enterprises start...
Amana, Iowa - A worker sets up an embroidery machine at the Amana Woolen Mill The Woolen Mill is one of the enterprises started when German immigrants established the communal Amana Colonies in 1855
THE MODERN ARK. Political cartoon satirizing unrestricted immigration into United States in 1871. Men from many races and nat...
THE MODERN ARK. Political cartoon satirizing unrestricted immigration into United States in 1871. Men from many races and nationalities, riding various animals, are welcomed into an ark provisioned with Liberty Corn, Freedom Grain and Equality Beans. Wood engraving by Sol Eytinge from a sketch by E.S. Bisbee.
German Lutheran Meetinghouse during the autumn months. Located in Waldoboro, Maine USA This church and cemetery is listed on ...
German Lutheran Meetinghouse during the autumn months. Located in Waldoboro, Maine USA This church and cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of the three oldest chruches in Maine
Albert Einstein taking his oath of citizenship. Also taking swearing allegiance in are Helen Dukas, and Einstein's daughter, ...
Albert Einstein taking his oath of citizenship. Also taking swearing allegiance in are Helen Dukas, and Einstein's daughter, Margot. Oct. 1, 1940.
THE EMIGRANTS' FAREWELL. 1883 American print depicting German emigrants gathered at seaport for embarkation to North America.
1844 riots in greater Philadelphia provoked by the anti-Catholic political party, 'Native Americans,' occurring on May 6 and ...
1844 riots in greater Philadelphia provoked by the anti-Catholic political party, 'Native Americans,' occurring on May 6 and 8 and July 6 and 7, 1844. The Nativists, wearing tall beaver hats, fought the Pennsylvania State Militia in Philadelphia. Fighting killed 24 and burned down two Catholic churches. Tensions built up in 1844 when the Roman Catholic bishop persuaded school officials to use both the King James and Latin Vulgate bibles.
Five smiling Japanese American women internees at Tule Lake Relocation Center during World War II.
Immigrant's home of primitive construction in rural Argentina, with men, women, and children in front of house, with horses, ...
Immigrant's home of primitive construction in rural Argentina, with men, women, and children in front of house, with horses, cattle, and geese. Argentina encouraged European immigration to increase agricultural production. From 1880 to 1930, Argentina became one of the world's ten wealthiest nations as a result of the rapid expansion of agriculture and foreign investment.
Unveiling of monument at entrance Central Park, New York to battleship Maine which exploded in Havana harbour in Spanish-Amer...
Unveiling of monument at entrance Central Park, New York to battleship Maine which exploded in Havana harbour in Spanish-American War, 1898. Mayor Gaynor, Admiral Badger and General Wilson on steps of City Hall, 19 May 1913.
RMS Titanic, White Star Line's Olympic-class in Harland and Wolff's shipyard, Belfast, Ireland , shortly before her launch on...
RMS Titanic, White Star Line's Olympic-class in Harland and Wolff's shipyard, Belfast, Ireland , shortly before her launch on 13 May 1911. Sunk on her maiden voyage to New York, 12 April 1912 with loss of more than 1,500 lives.
A crowd of European immigrants and their luggage on the THE IMPERATOR, then the world's largest Ocean Liner, arriving in New ...
A crowd of European immigrants and their luggage on the THE IMPERATOR, then the world's largest Ocean Liner, arriving in New York Harbor on June 19, 1913 with over 4,000 passengers. The liner of the Hamburg-American Line carried 1800 third class and steerage passengers, and over 850 in first class. June 1913.
Immigrants refused admission to the United States awaiting their return passage, Ellis Island, c. 1902.
Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev in 1936. Stalin 1878 ??? 1953, was Soviet Russia's leader from 1924-1953.Nikita Khrushche...
Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev in 1936. Stalin 1878 ??? 1953, was Soviet Russia's leader from 1924-1953.Nikita Khrushchev 1894 ??? 1971, was leader of Soviet Russia from 1953-1964.
Amana, Iowa - A worker operates a loom at the Amana Woolen Mill The Woolen Mill is one of the enterprises started when German...
Amana, Iowa - A worker operates a loom at the Amana Woolen Mill The Woolen Mill is one of the enterprises started when German immigrants established the communal Amana Colonies in 1855
Mexican-American mother and child in California during the Great Depression. June 1935 photograph by Dorothea Lange.
Mexican agricultural laborers arriving in Stockton, California, to harvest beets in May 1943. Wartime labor shortages were me...
Mexican agricultural laborers arriving in Stockton, California, to harvest beets in May 1943. Wartime labor shortages were met by the government sponsored Bracero program which regulated temporary laborers from Mexico.
Chinese workers wearing traditional clothing while excavating the track bed of the Central Pacific Railroad, in the Sierra Ne...
Chinese workers wearing traditional clothing while excavating the track bed of the Central Pacific Railroad, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Ca. 1867.
New York, New York City, NYC, Statue of Liberty National Monument, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, historic building, exteri...
New York, New York City, NYC, Statue of Liberty National Monument, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, historic building, exterior, Scots Guards Rampant Lion Pipe Band, event, man, boy, girl, teen, musician, kilt, bagpipe, conductor, perform, performance,
Ellis Island commissioner, Frederick Wallis posed with a group of new arrivals in 1921-21, during the end of unlimited influx...
Ellis Island commissioner, Frederick Wallis posed with a group of new arrivals in 1921-21, during the end of unlimited influx of immigrants and transition to restrictions established with the 1924 Immigration Quota Act.
Cairo Conference 1943 between China, UK and USA. From left to right Generalissamo Chiang Kai Shek; Franklin Delano Roosevelt;...
Cairo Conference 1943 between China, UK and USA. From left to right Generalissamo Chiang Kai Shek; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Winston Churchill and Madame Chiang Kai Shek
European immigrants arriving at New York City's Castle Garden in 1858. German immigrants smoke their distinctively shaped pip...
European immigrants arriving at New York City's Castle Garden in 1858. German immigrants smoke their distinctively shaped pipe (at left) and Irish immigrants (right) wear their high hats and knee britches.
Amana, Iowa - A worker runs a warping creel at the Amana Woolen Mill The machine gathers up to 240 strands of yarn that will ...
Amana, Iowa - A worker runs a warping creel at the Amana Woolen Mill The machine gathers up to 240 strands of yarn that will later be woven into cloth on a loom The Woolen Mill is one of the enterprises started when German immigrants established the com. Amana, Iowa - A worker runs a warping creel at the Amana Woolen Mill The machine gathers up to 240 strands of yarn that will later be woven into cloth on a loom The Woolen Mill is one of the enterprises started when German immigrants establi
Rear view of a police officer examining a man in an immigration office, Ellis Island, New York City, New York, USA
Boys at unique visual exhibit demonstrating US flag and immigrants at Ellis Island New York City
Smiling Polish-American miner, in work clothes and covered with coal dust, arriving home from work in Capels, West Virginia. ...
Smiling Polish-American miner, in work clothes and covered with coal dust, arriving home from work in Capels, West Virginia. 1938 photo by Marion Post Wolcott.
The anti-Chinese wall--The American wall goes up as the Chinese original goes down. Laborers, (Irishmen, a Negro, a Civil War...
The anti-Chinese wall--The American wall goes up as the Chinese original goes down. Laborers, (Irishmen, a Negro, a Civil War veteran, Italian, Frenchman, and a Jew, building a wall against the Chinese. chromolithograph, 1882
A Jewish family of Adolph Weiss and neighbors worked until late at night making garters several nights in the week.
Amana, Iowa - A worker makes furniture at the Amana Furniture & Clock Shop The shop is one of the enterprises started when Ge...
Amana, Iowa - A worker makes furniture at the Amana Furniture & Clock Shop The shop is one of the enterprises started when German immigrants established the communal Amana Colonies in 1855
Prohibition in the USA 1920-1933: A barrel of confiscated illegal beer being poured down a drain. Alcohol Temperance America
Middle-aged Mexican-American migrant woman, bend over while harvesting tomatoes in the Santa Clara Valley, California. Novemb...
Middle-aged Mexican-American migrant woman, bend over while harvesting tomatoes in the Santa Clara Valley, California. November 1938 photograph by Dorothea Lange.
'Irish emigrants embarking for America at Waterloo Docks, Liverpool. From ''The Illustrated London News'', July 1850'
The Molly Maguires were a secret organization of Irish Immigrants who worked in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania. I...
The Molly Maguires were a secret organization of Irish Immigrants who worked in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania. In the 1870s, they used sabotage and assassination against coal companies to gain better wages and working conditions. The 1970 film, THE MOLLY MAGUIRES, stared Richard Harris and Sean Connery.
Amana, Iowa - A worker runs a warping creel at the Amana Woolen Mill The machine gathers up to 240 strands of yarn that will ...
Amana, Iowa - A worker runs a warping creel at the Amana Woolen Mill The machine gathers up to 240 strands of yarn that will later be woven into cloth on a loom The Woolen Mill is one of the enterprises started when German immigrants established the com. Amana, Iowa - A worker runs a warping creel at the Amana Woolen Mill The machine gathers up to 240 strands of yarn that will later be woven into cloth on a loom The Woolen Mill is one of the enterprises started when German immigrants establi
Japanese Americans on Sisal Plantation in Hawaii ca. 1915. Japanese emigrated to Hawaii and the American west coast from 1885...
Japanese Americans on Sisal Plantation in Hawaii ca. 1915. Japanese emigrated to Hawaii and the American west coast from 1885 until 1907 when the United States and Japanese 'Gentleman's Agreement ' effectively ended Japanese immigration.
Amana, Iowa - A worker operates a loom at the Amana Woolen Mill The Woolen Mill is one of the enterprises started when German...
Amana, Iowa - A worker operates a loom at the Amana Woolen Mill The Woolen Mill is one of the enterprises started when German immigrants established the communal Amana Colonies in 1855
Amana, Iowa - A worker runs a warping creel at the Amana Woolen Mill The machine gathers up to 240 strands of yarn that will ...
Amana, Iowa - A worker runs a warping creel at the Amana Woolen Mill The machine gathers up to 240 strands of yarn that will later be woven into cloth on a loom The Woolen Mill is one of the enterprises started when German immigrants established the com. Amana, Iowa - A worker runs a warping creel at the Amana Woolen Mill The machine gathers up to 240 strands of yarn that will later be woven into cloth on a loom The Woolen Mill is one of the enterprises started when German immigrants establi
Annie Moore Statue, Cobh, Co Cork, Ireland, First immigrant to the United States to pass through the Ellis Island facility in...
Annie Moore Statue, Cobh, Co Cork, Ireland, First immigrant to the United States to pass through the Ellis Island facility in New York Harbor
European immigrants arriving at New York City's Castle Garden, America's first official immigration center in 1858. From 1855...
European immigrants arriving at New York City's Castle Garden, America's first official immigration center in 1858. From 1855, until it was replaced by Ellis Island in 1890, Castle Garden sheltered newly arrived immigrants from exploitation and quarantined sick immigrants.
Child labor. Syrian children from Boston and Providence pick cranberries. Maple Park Bog, Massachusetts. photograph by Lewis ...
Child labor. Syrian children from Boston and Providence pick cranberries. Maple Park Bog, Massachusetts. photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, 1911
This is the interior of the Great Hall at Ellis Island which signifies immigration to the United States. There are two Americ...
This is the interior of the Great Hall at Ellis Island which signifies immigration to the United States. There are two American flags flying posted at the center of the walls.
Trials of a wavering citizen, shows a potential voter pulled in two directions by politicians. At left, dressed in tophat and...
Trials of a wavering citizen, shows a potential voter pulled in two directions by politicians. At left, dressed in tophat and suit is the 'nativists,' and at right, in plaid pants, the Irish politician. New York City, November 1857.
Aerial off Ellis island, historic Immigration station buildings, New Jersey , North america
Loss of White Star Line's Olympic-class RMS Titanic which struck an iceberg on 12 April 1912 on her maiden voyage from Southa...
Loss of White Star Line's Olympic-class RMS Titanic which struck an iceberg on 12 April 1912 on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. Titanic's lifeboats on their way to the Carpathia. More than 1,500 lives lost. Disaster
The Emperor's Grand Master of Horse passing through the main street of Seoul (looking west), Korea, 1904. One of a pair of st...
The Emperor's Grand Master of Horse passing through the main street of Seoul (looking west), Korea, 1904. One of a pair of stereoscope cards.
US President William Taft at unveiling ceremony for the memorial at entrance to Central Park, New York, to the battleship Mai...
US President William Taft at unveiling ceremony for the memorial at entrance to Central Park, New York, to the battleship Maine which exploded in Havana harbour in Spanish-American War 1898. May 1913.
John Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) 30th President of the USA 1923-1929 (Republican), signing Veterans' Bill and other bills on ...
John Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) 30th President of the USA 1923-1929 (Republican), signing Veterans' Bill and other bills on the White House Lawn, 1924. General of the Armies John Joseph Pershing (1860-1948) looks on. America
The magic washer. The Chinese must go. Cartoon showing Uncle Sam, with proclamation and can of Magic Washer, kicking Chinese ...
The magic washer. The Chinese must go. Cartoon showing Uncle Sam, with proclamation and can of Magic Washer, kicking Chinese out of the United States. color lithograph, 1886.
Marker of Swiss cantons (regions) of the settlers, Nueva Helvecia (also known as Colonia Suiza, town settled by Swiss immigra...
Marker of Swiss cantons (regions) of the settlers, Nueva Helvecia (also known as Colonia Suiza, town settled by Swiss immigrants), Uruguay
High angle view of a group of people in a conference, Big Four Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, July, 1955
Ernest Archdeacon (1863-1950) French lawyer and aviation pioneer in the take-off position in his copy of a Wright glider.
Anti-Irish advertisement. An advertisement announcing publication of the 'American Citizen,' a short-lived nativist newspaper...
Anti-Irish advertisement. An advertisement announcing publication of the 'American Citizen,' a short-lived nativist newspaper. The broadside is illustrated with an elaborate and venomous anti-Catholic (mostly Irish) scene. Published by J. E. Farwell, engraving and letterpress, 1852
The Museum of Chinese in America (traditional Chinese: ???????) abbreviated MOCA, founded in 1980, exhibits the history of Ch...
The Museum of Chinese in America (traditional Chinese: ???????) abbreviated MOCA, founded in 1980, exhibits the history of Chinatowns and the cultural contributions of Chinese immigrants to North America and is dedicated to reclaiming, preserving, and interpreting the history and culture of Chinese and their descendants in the Western Hemisphere..
Lebanese-Syrian American children at play on the street in their New York City neighborhood, possibly, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. C...
Lebanese-Syrian American children at play on the street in their New York City neighborhood, possibly, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Ca. 1910
Historic Icelandic settlement of Hecla Village, Hecla Island Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada.
A SLAVE GIRL IN HOLIDAY ATTIRE. From Arnold Genthe's CHINATOWN SERIES. Ca. 1900. The great proportion of Chinese immigrants w...
A SLAVE GIRL IN HOLIDAY ATTIRE. From Arnold Genthe's CHINATOWN SERIES. Ca. 1900. The great proportion of Chinese immigrants were men, and racial isolation limited their marriage prospects. Resultantly, prostitution became part of their ethnic culture.
Japanese-Americans agricultural workers packing broccoli near Guadalupe, California. March 1937 photograph by Dorothea Lange.
Door handles in form of flatiron, Madison Square,Manhattan,New York, USA ,US, North America
The White Star Line vessels Olympic and Titanic under construction in Harland and Wolff's shipyard, Belfast, Northern Ireland...
The White Star Line vessels Olympic and Titanic under construction in Harland and Wolff's shipyard, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1909-1911.
Registry Room, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, Statue of Liberty National Monument, New York City,
General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the Polish Premier and Commander-in chief (1881 ??? 1943) The last visit to Gibraltar of General ...
General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the Polish Premier and Commander-in chief (1881 ??? 1943) The last visit to Gibraltar of General Sikorski before his death, 4 July, 1943
Anti-immigration cartoon of 1883 is captioned,' The balance of trade with Great Britain seems to be still against us--650 pau...
Anti-immigration cartoon of 1883 is captioned,' The balance of trade with Great Britain seems to be still against us--650 paupers arrived at Boston in the steamship Nestoria, April 15th, from Galway, Ireland, shipped by the British government.' by William A. Rogers in HARPER'S WEEKLY.
Homeward bound working men carrying their shovels and axes, on a winter evening on Mulberry Street, the Italian quarter of Ne...
Homeward bound working men carrying their shovels and axes, on a winter evening on Mulberry Street, the Italian quarter of New York City, 1890.
German Lutheran Meetinghouse during the autumn months. Located in Waldoboro, Maine USA This church and cemetery is listed on ...
German Lutheran Meetinghouse during the autumn months. Located in Waldoboro, Maine USA This church and cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of the three oldest chruches in Maine
July 4 1857 battle on Bayard Street of the Irish gang the 'Dead Rabbits ' against the Bowery Boys a nativist anti-Catholic an...
July 4 1857 battle on Bayard Street of the Irish gang the 'Dead Rabbits ' against the Bowery Boys a nativist anti-Catholic and anti-Irish gang. Both gangs were based in the Five Points neighborhood of New York City. GANGS OF NEW YORK Martin Scorsese's 2002 was based on the rivalry between these two gangs.
Statue of Liberty. Poster showing immigrants on a ship's deck, sailing past the Statue of Liberty. color lithograph, 1917
Political cartoon, entitled, CHURCH AND STATE-NO UNION UPON ANY TERMS, by Thomas Nast, shows a symbolic women rejecting, and ...
Political cartoon, entitled, CHURCH AND STATE-NO UNION UPON ANY TERMS, by Thomas Nast, shows a symbolic women rejecting, and soldiers blocking, multiple religions to the door of building 'State.'
World War I poster. Lest they perish Campaign for $30,000,000 by the American Committee for Relief in the Near East which inc...
World War I poster. Lest they perish Campaign for $30,000,000 by the American Committee for Relief in the Near East which included Armenia-Greece-Syria-Persia. The collapsing Ottoman Empire violently repressed nationalistic minority populations during and after the First World War. 1917.
Mexican-American carrot puller in Edinburg, Texas. February 1939 photograph by Russell Lee.
German Lutheran Meetinghouse during the autumn months. Located in Waldoboro, Maine USA This church and cemetery is listed on ...
German Lutheran Meetinghouse during the autumn months. Located in Waldoboro, Maine USA This church and cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of the three oldest chruches in Maine
Under armed guard, parentless children and a pastor sit in the back of truck for their evacuation from Bainbridge Island, dur...
Under armed guard, parentless children and a pastor sit in the back of truck for their evacuation from Bainbridge Island, during the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. The orphans were interned at Manzanar's 'Children's Village,' the only orphanage in internment camps, to which 100 children from Alaska to San Diego were sent for the duration of the war. 1942.
Amana, Iowa - Thread on an embroidery machine at the Amana Woolen Mill The Woolen Mill is one of the enterprises started when...
Amana, Iowa - Thread on an embroidery machine at the Amana Woolen Mill The Woolen Mill is one of the enterprises started when German immigrants established the communal Amana Colonies in 1855
Paris, France, Street Scene, French-Chinese Female Teens in Traditional Costumes Parading in Chinese new years Carnival in St...
Paris, France, Street Scene, French-Chinese Female Teens in Traditional Costumes Parading in Chinese new years Carnival in Street in the Marais Area
Jacqueline Kennedy and Architect Ieoh Ming Pei. Pei had been chosen as the architect for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library...
Jacqueline Kennedy and Architect Ieoh Ming Pei. Pei had been chosen as the architect for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. Mr. Pei, was a prominent architect and a naturalized American citizen, born in Canton, China. Dec. 13, 1964.
Aerial view, sightseeing flight, Audrey Zapp Drive, historic Immigration Station, New York City, New York, United States, Nor...
Aerial view, sightseeing flight, Audrey Zapp Drive, historic Immigration Station, New York City, New York, United States, North America
Thalia Massie, a socialite who falsely accused five men of rape to cover up her own indiscretions and was abetted by White pr...
Thalia Massie, a socialite who falsely accused five men of rape to cover up her own indiscretions and was abetted by White prejudice against Hawaiian natives and Asians immigrants. One of the accused was killed by her family in an 'honor killing'. 1931.
A group of Irish-American women tearing up a British flag, as they protest against United States support of the English again...
A group of Irish-American women tearing up a British flag, as they protest against United States support of the English against the Irish Independence. Washington, D.C., June 3, 1920
Immigrants leaving a sternwheeler at New York City's Castle Garden in 1884 under police supervision. They may have waited at ...
Immigrants leaving a sternwheeler at New York City's Castle Garden in 1884 under police supervision. They may have waited at anchor in the New York harbor for a few days while immigration officials inspected ships and gathered passenger information.
Rag Picker's court, Mulberry Street, 1879. Many poor immigrants started at the bottom of the economic ladder, as rag pickers,...
Rag Picker's court, Mulberry Street, 1879. Many poor immigrants started at the bottom of the economic ladder, as rag pickers, who collected useable refuse for reprocessing, essentially recycling in an economy of scarcity.
Madame Joliot-Curie visits of Albert Einstein. The two Nobel Prize winning physicists talk in the study of Einstein's home in...
Madame Joliot-Curie visits of Albert Einstein. The two Nobel Prize winning physicists talk in the study of Einstein's home in Princeton. March 18, 1948.
Arab Anti-Zionist demonstration is outside the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. Jewish people are watching demonstration near door...
Arab Anti-Zionist demonstration is outside the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. Jewish people are watching demonstration near door. March 8, 1920.
Salvador Allende Gossens 1908 ???1973 (left) president of Chile 1970-73, with Fidel Castro born 1926, (Cuban politician and P...
Salvador Allende Gossens 1908 ???1973 (left) president of Chile 1970-73, with Fidel Castro born 1926, (Cuban politician and Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and President 1965-2008.
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