Author: Mark R. Stoneman
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Here is a 15-panel satire by C.J. Grant, perhaps meant for working-class Britons. In it, British emigrants could get away from taxes, but expect frightening exotic animals, cannibals, isolation, poverty, and homesickness.
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Photograph: Saco River in Conway, NH, just upstream from the covered bridges on afternoon of December 25, 2019.
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Photograph: Mt. Washington from Intervale, NH, on January 31, 2020.
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Another editorial project is nearing completion. Waiting for the page proofs now for Consumer Engineering, 1920s–1970s: Marketing between Expert Planning and Consumer Responsiveness, ed. Jan Logemann, Gary Cross, and Ingo Köhler (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
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My latest editorial project: Migrant Knowledge, a blog with Andrea Westermann and Swen Steinberg for the German Historical Institute Washington.
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Political cartoon from Puck about nativism in Congress in 1916. The cartoonist employs the metaphor of a fortress wall to make his point about a proposed literacy test for immigrants.
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Photograph: Female employees of the German munitions factory WASAG in their work clothes, 1916.
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Five photographs from a short visit to Astoria, Oregon.