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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.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Night School

Date: 05 1940
Description: Adult students pose in class at a night school, where they took classes in English and citizenship at Neighborhood House.
Photograph

Oath of Citizenship

Date: 01 17 1956
Description: The oath of citizenship is administered to a class of 31 in the Madison Federal Court. Edgar Alstad, clerk of court, administers the oath as Judge Patrick ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Playtime

Date: 1925
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with images of infants and young children being cared for at the settlement house, including a group outside...
Photograph

Citizen Procedures for Foreign Doctors

Date: 05 26 1964
Description: New citizens Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Vognar of Ft. Atkinson, with their twin daughters, Daniella (left) and Stella, at the Naturalization ceremonies. They are...
Photograph

May Day Demonstration

Date: 05 01 2006
Description: Elevated view of a large group of people, largely from the Latino community, marching from Walker's Point, through the downtown, to the Lake Michigan lakef...
Poster

Remember! The Flag of Liberty, Support It!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of several people, presumably immigrants, standing in the foreground. Behind them is an American flag, and behind it is a ...
Postcard

American Club, Kohler, Wis.

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Description: Hand-colored postcard of the American Club during the time it was a dorm for immigrant workers.

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