The History Project - University of California, Davis
Notes about this image:The contrast of British surplus population with the need for manpower in the U.S., woodcut, 1855.
Citation:Courtesy of The Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave. at 103rd St., New York, NY 10029. Our thanks to the Museum. In Oscar Handlin, Immigration, 1972, p. 160. 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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