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| Notes about this image: | Drawing of the interior of a railroad car of 1886 entitled, "The Modern Ship of the Plains," taking immigrants to the West. R.F. Zogbaum. |
| Citation: | Harper's Weekly, Nov. 13, 1886. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540. LC-USZ62-2169. In Oscar Handlin, A Pictorial History of Immigration, 1972, p. 107. 8.12.7 |
| Standard: | 8.12-7.00 the new sources of large-scale immigration and the contribution of immigrants to the building of cities and the economy; the ways in which new social and economic patterns encouraged assimilation of newcomers into the mainstream amidst growing cultural d |
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