The History Project - University of California, Davis
Notes about this image:An Irish peasant family, about 1880.
Citation:Copyright holder unknown. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540. In Oscar Handlin, Immigration, 1972, p. 111. 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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