Category: Migration
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Photograph by Dorothea Lange from 1938 accompanied by revealing quotations from a father and son on the cusp of leaving the land.
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“Migrant worker looking through back window of automobile near Prague, Oklahoma. Lincoln County, Oklahoma,” 1939.
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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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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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Compelling color print of a middle-aged African American woman: “The Writing Lesson” by Morris Schulman, sponsored by the WPA, ca. 1935-43. There is also a link to a short blog post I wrote for History of Knowledge.
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I find this 1917 poster interesting because it seems to target urban, working-class immigrants. Besides the dress of the people waiting in line to lend Uncle Sam some money, there is the American flag held by the child, whose enthusiasm attracts the attention of the adults around her. Children, whether…
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Photograph of a boy reading a Superman comic book