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SmallWorld: Time is a tool, not a crutch
Posted: Dec 12, 2007 08:38 PM
Updated:Nov 01, 2008 05:07 AM
After reading Dan O'Byrne's post, "Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses," I thought I would revisit our Nation's immigration history with some iconic images.
Image 1:
Title: Migrant Mother - February 1936
Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California
Image 2:
Photograph shows half-length portrait of two girls wearing banners with slogan "ABOLISH CH[ILD] SLAVERY!!" in English and Yiddish, one carrying American flag; spectators stand nearby. Probably taken during May 1, 1909 labor parade in New York City.
Image 3:
Cartoon concerning Irish and Chinese immigration to the United States, showing "Fritz" and "Pat" seated at table talking.
Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, artist.
Image 4:
1908 - Ellis Island, N.Y. - view from the torch . . .
--- Story continues below ---
of "Liberty"
Image 5:
From the old to the new world - German emigrants for New York embarking on a Hamburg steamer
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1874
Image 6:
Mexicans entering the United States. United States immigration station, El Paso, Texas - June 1938
Image 7:
An advertisement announcing publication of the "American Citizen," a short-lived nativist newspaper. The broadside is illustrated with an elaborate and venomous anti-Catholic scene. At left a temple of Liberty stands on a mound labeled "Constitution and Laws." At the foot of the hill is a gathering of native Americans, including sailors, farmers, soldiers, and a Revolutionary War veteran. They hold banners emblazoned with such mottoes as "The Bible The Cornerstone of Liberty," "Beware of Foreign Influence," "None But Americans Shall Rule America," and "Education, Morality, and Religion." The ship, "from Cork," bears the papal coat of arms. The foreigners carry banners reading, "We Are Bound to Carry Out the Pious Intentions of His Holiness the Pope," "Americans Shant Rule Us!!" and "Fradom of Spache and Action!" Among them are several clerics, a drunken mother with several children, and a few unkempt ruffians. One of the newcomers (lower right) beats a man with a club. In the distance, across the ocean, the basilica of St. Peter's in Rome is visible. From it issues a giant basilisk wearing the pope's crown, which is seized by a large hand from above. A commentary is provided in the lengthy continuation of the title: "Already the enemies of our dearest institutions, like the foreign spies in the Trojan horse of old, are within our gates. They are disgorging themselves upon us, at the rate of Hundreds of Thousands Every Year! They aim at nothing short of conquest and supremacy over us."
Published 1852 - wood-engraving with letterpress on wove paper
Image 8:
The immigrant. Is he an acquisition or a detriment?
1903 - Gillam, F. Victor, 1858?-1920, artist.
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