The History Project - University of California, Davis
Notes about this image:Italian family looking for lost baggage, Ellis Island. "The immigrants came. Thousands entered the mills of Lawrence [Mass.] The city became a center for a score of nationalities, eager to work, to earn, to raise their families in this new land."
Citation:Lewis Hine photo. Lewis Hine Collection. The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, 900 East Ave., Rochester, NY, 14607. Our thanks to the George Eastman House. In Bill Cahn, Mill Town, Cameron & Kahn, 1954, p. 73. 8.12.7
Standard:8.12-7.00 the new sources of large-scale immigration and the contribution of immigrants to the building of cities and the economy; the ways in which new social and economic patterns encouraged assimilation of newcomers into the mainstream amidst growing cultural d

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