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Notes about this image:A peasant family being dispossessed for nonpayment of rent, London, 1824. David Wilkie painting.
Citation:Copyright holder unknown. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540. NE2195.W65 A3. In Oscar Handlin, Immigration, 1972, p. 23. 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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