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Buying Tickets at Ellis Island

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Description: Immigrants buying tickets at Ellis Island.
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Departing Ellis Island

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Description: Elevated view from railing of immigrants boarding a ferry to depart Ellis Island.
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Immigrants on Boats

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Description: Medical officers inspecting immigrants.
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Family Farm House

Date: 1879
Description: Harold and Gunhild Mickelson with five of their daughters (Bertha Mickelson Bragger and her husband are standing on the right), in Section 23 of the Town o...
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Medical Inspection of Immigrants

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Description: Medical inspection of immigrants at Ellis Island.
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Swiss Passport Frontispiece

Date: 11 22 1848
Description: Frontispiece from a passport issued to Benedict Goldenberger from the canton of Aargau, Switzerland. He left Aargau in 1851, went to Massachussetts, and th...
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Goodbye to Old Ireland

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Description: Boat in Queenstown, Ireland, going out to ocean liner and carrying (possibly), immigrants to the United States. Original catalog listing called "Goodbye to...
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Maria and Henry Getto in Yard

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Description: Maria and Henry Getto in the yard of their farm with windmill in the background, Oulu Township.
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Henry & Maria Getto in Buggy

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Description: Henry and Maria Getto in buggy, Oulu Township.
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Italian Displaced Person in Madison

Date: 12 30 1951
Description: Pietro Palumbo, seated at a table, visits with his sponsor Matt Lombardino about his plans for a "new life" in Madison after arriving here as a displaced p...
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Neils Lassen

Date: 03 05 1952
Description: Twenty-two year-old Danish immigrant, Neils Lassen, right, uses a globe map to point out his native Denmark to Major Roberts of the Madison Army and Air Fo...
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George Tymorek

Date: 06 11 1952
Description: George Tymorek, seated at a typewriter, is the son of Polish immigrants. He grew up in Chicago Heights, Illinois, and received his Master of Arts degree in...
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Reverend Antonio Parroni

Date: 01 05 1954
Description: Portrait of Reverend Antonio Parroni standing at the altar of the Chiesa Italiana Methodist Church at 103 South Lake Street where he was minister from 1929...
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Golden Wedding Anniversary

Date: 03 10 1954
Description: Portrait of Rognald and Anna Larson noting their 50th wedding anniversary. The couple married in the Vinje church in Voss, Norway in 1904 and came to Madis...
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Passport to Happiness

Date: 10 20 1954
Description: Portrait of Fricis Brakmanis, age 41, and his bride-to-be Maija Smeils, 40, holding their wedding license. Both had spent time in Latvian forced-labor camp...
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Hans and Aslaug Jordee Albertson

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Description: Portrait of a couple. Caption reads: "Hans Albertson (Kellesvig - Norway name) and Aslaug Jordee Albertson. "Most of life on her father's homestead. Amund ...

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