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| Notes about this image: | Italian women with baby, Ellis Island. "Industry needed more workers…urgently. So postcards and posters were dispatched to nations overseas to attract people to our shores. Posters showed a working man leaving a factory in Lawrence, Mass. He carried a suitcase full of gold. And in the distance was the bank to which he was taking it. Thousands risked the long trip to come to the new land of opportunity." |
| Citation: | Lewis Hine photo. Lewis W. Hine Memorial 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. 70. 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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