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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 |
| Use a letter written home by a Norwegian immigrant to take a closer look at the immigrant experience in 1840s Wisconsin |
| 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: | 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: | 09 02 1954 |
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| Description: | A group of newly naturalized citizens registering to vote at City Hall. |
| Date: | 01 1874 |
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| Description: | Interior of a coach on an emigration train to the west. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Blue cover design of an official report entitled "Wisconsin. What It Offers to the Immigrant". |
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