The History Project - University of California, Davis
Notes about this image:Steerage passengers. The "huddled masses," steerage passengers who came by the thousands between 1880 and 1914 to escape the unbearable conditions in Eastern Europe.
Citation:Edwin Levick photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540. LC-USZ62-11202. In American Heritage, Oct. 1966, p. 2. 8.12.7
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