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| Explore our physical and digital collection of naturalization records for Wisconsin and passenger lists for the U.S. and Canada. |
| Packing a traveler's trunk offers students the opportunity to take a closer look at the immigrant experience in this lesson |
| Students will learn more about the history of their own family as well as the larger history of immigration to Wisconsin |
| Examine the oral history and migration experiences of Rubie Bond, an African-American resident of Beloit featured on Wisconsin Public Television |
| Use a letter written home by a Norwegian immigrant to take a closer look at the immigrant experience in 1840s Wisconsin |
| Supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story' |
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| Supplemental materials for Chapter 6 of the 4th-grade history textbook. |
| Use census records to study immigration to Wisconsin and living conditions in the mid-19th century |
| Learn about life on the frontier in Wisconsin in 1851, as recounted in guides designed to attract immigrants to the state from Europe. |
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| Description: | Immigrants buying tickets at Ellis Island. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Cover of a pamphlet, printed in German, advertising land for sale in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 05 18 1919 |
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| Description: | Scene from Poale Zion Chasidim, an Americanization pageant held in the Milwaukee auditorium to welcome Milwaukee's new citizens. |
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| Description: | Jane Addams holding an open book, surrounded by immigrant children. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Two dog-sledges hauling supplies, with one also carrying a Mandan. |
| Date: | 09 02 1954 |
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| Description: | A group of newly naturalized citizens registering to vote at City Hall. |
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| Description: | A colored advertising card that was issued by the Land Department of the Wisconsin Central Railroad in order to promote the sale of railroad-owned land in ... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | The main deck of The Tuisco, showing groups of immigrant men, women, and a child in brightly colored clothing, conversing while standing below a ful... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | The Tuisco left Bremerhaven May 6, 1856. Hölzlhuber called this the "quickest three masted immigration boat," holding 335 passengers. Though in the ... |
| Date: | 01 1874 |
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| Description: | Interior of a coach on an emigration train to the west. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The Emigranten Office at King and Webster Streets. The Emigranten was published here in the 1850s and 1860s. |
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