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Notes about this image:Launching of the "Great Republic," the largest merchant ship in the world, 1853.
Citation:New York Public Library, 1211 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10036. Our thanks to the NYPL. In Oscar Handlin, Immigration, 1972, p. 76. 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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