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Buying Tickets at Ellis Island

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Description: Immigrants buying tickets at Ellis Island.
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Americanization Pageant

Date: 05 18 1919
Description: Scene from Poale Zion Chasidim, an Americanization pageant held in the Milwaukee auditorium to welcome Milwaukee's new citizens.
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Medical Inspection of Immigrants

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Description: Medical inspection of immigrants at Ellis Island.
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Naturalized Citizens

Date: 01 17 1956
Description: Men and women holding United States flags after a ceremony in the federal courtroom making them naturalized citizens.
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Polish Immigrant Women

Date: 1895
Description: Polish immigrant women at the Market Square wearing traditional, national clothing. In the background are brick buildings. A sign on one building reads: "C...
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Market Square

Date: 1890
Description: Polish immigrant standing near a team of horses eating hay in Market Square. He is wearing work clothes. Large brick buildings are in the background.
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Market Square

Date: 1890
Description: Polish immigrants in Market Square wearing Polish national dress. The men are wearing suits, coats, and hats. The women are wearing dresses, shawls and hat...
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Market Square

Date: 1890
Description: Polish immigrants, wearing Polish national dress, with a wagon in Market Square. Other men in the square are wearing suits, long coats, and hats. The women...
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Market Square

Date: 1890
Description: Polish immigrants in Market Square wearing Polish national dress. The men are wearing suits, coats, and hats. The women are wearing dresses, shawls, hats a...
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Market Square

Date: 1895
Description: Elevated view of Polish immigrants in Market Square with horse-drawn lumber sledges and hay wagons. Commercial buildings are in the background. A sign on o...
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William Eisen, German Immigrants

Date: 11 02 1949
Description: John Eisen of Waterloo shown with his father, William (center), and his son, Carl, after his father arrived at Truax Field in Madison to visit his son and ...
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Storch Family Reunification

Date: 03 06 1952
Description: Peter Storch, engineer at Ann Emery hall, and his children are shown at the Milwaukee Road depot where they met their son and brother, Alois Storch with hi...
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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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Boy Strikes Against Libby, McNeill & Libby, Inc.

Date: 1967
Description: A nine-year old Jamaican boy wearing a backwards cap, plaid jacket, jeans, and sneakers. He is holding two buckets and is looking at the camera. He is join...
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Rose Sussman

Date: 02 05 1959
Description: Rose Sussman, a former ballet dancer and teacher, shopping for a dress in a Madison store. The former Rose Goloff was born in the southern Ukraine section ...
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MEChA de UW-Madison at the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: A large crowd of protesters standing on the street outside the Republican presidential debate. The group are mostly college age, although a young boy is st...

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