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| Packing a traveler's trunk offers students the opportunity to take a closer look at the immigrant experience in this lesson |
| Date: | 07 15 1948 |
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| Description: | A Mexican woman and her six children are standing on the porch of the multiple-family housing provided to them by the pea cannery for which their husband a... |
| Date: | 05 1940 |
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| Description: | Adult students pose in class at a night school, where they took classes in English and citizenship at Neighborhood House. |
| Date: | 05 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Ruby Kubota, president of Groves Housing Co-op of the University of Wisconsin. Her father, George Kubota, came to the United States from Japan ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker is sitting on a stool to work with metal parts in the ball bearing plant at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Susanne Hafner Goldfarb on deck of S.S. Castel Bianco en route to Israel. |
| Date: | 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Rosa and Bernard Katz on their way to the United States; Goteborg, Sweden. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | The Statue of Liberty and New York Harbor as photographed by Holocaust survivor, Louis Koplin. Taken from the ship carrying him from Europe to the United S... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | The entrance of the area of emigration for refugees from Europe, taken by Louis Koplin; Bremen, Germany. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | From left: unidentified man, son Andre, wife Rose, unidentified woman, Walter Wolf Peltz looking out of the window of a railroad car; Hamburg, Germany, en ... |
| Date: | 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Holocaust survivor Rabbi Mayer Relles during the time he worked in a refugee camp; Rabius, Switzerland. |
| Date: | 11 02 1949 |
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| 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 ... |
| Learn about the Lithuanians who emigrated to Wisconsin in the early 20th century and again after World War II. |
| Learn about the Hungarian immigrants who came to Wisconsin from the 19th century through the post-World War II era. |
| How a Disaster Made Wisconsin the Dairy State |
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| Discover how Wisconsin became the nation's leader in wheat long before it was renowned for dairy, and the disaster that made it all possible. |
| The History of Modern Immigration in Wisconsin |
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| Discover the economic and cultural changes that brought new immigrants to Wisconsin in the 20th century. |
| Date: | 1943-09-16 |
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| County: | Waukesha |
| City: | Waukesha |
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