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| Notes about this image: | Castle Garden, leased by Commissioners of Emigration in 1855, and changed from an amusement hall to a depot where the bewildered foreigner could find interpreters, guides, authorized ticket-agents and an information bureau; before Ellis Island, 1906. European Americans persistently referred to "emigrants," not "immigrants," during first half-century. We thought in terms of their departure from Europe, rather than their arrival on our shores. |
| Citation: | Harper's Weekly, 1857-60. In John A. Kouwenhoven, Adventures of America, 1938, Plate #3. 8.6.3 |
| Standard: | 8.6-3.00 the reasons for the wave of immigration from Northern Europe to the U.S. and growth in the number, size, and spatial arrangements of cities (e.g., Irish immigrants and the Great Irish Famine) |
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