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| Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Maria Luisa Morales, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
| Packing a traveler's trunk offers students the opportunity to take a closer look at the immigrant experience in this lesson |
| Date: | 06 22 1933 |
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| Description: | Twelve boys and girls, coached by J.C. Haberman, in an acrobatic/gymnastic pose at the Madison Turners Hall, 21 South Butler Street. They performed seven "... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Christian Turck House built in 1835 by Turck who was a German immigrant. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Magnus Swenson. He was a Norwegian immigrant who made his name in business and as an inventor. He served on the Wisconsin Capitol Buil... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 09 02 1954 |
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| Description: | A group of newly naturalized citizens registering to vote at City Hall. |
| Date: | 06 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Madison Turnverein acrobats/gymnasts posing in an adagio formation, tutored by J.C. Haberman, at Madison Turner Hall, located at 21 South Butler Street. |
| 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Webb house with family standing on back porch. House built by John Webb, an early immigrant and Cornish miner. |
| Date: | 01 17 1956 |
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| Description: | Men and women holding United States flags after a ceremony in the federal courtroom making them naturalized citizens. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A convention of Russian immigrants at Beethoven Hall in New York City. The newspaper caption for this photograph describes the Bolshevik communist faction... |
| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A group of immigrants, both children and adults, who have just arrived at Ellis Island. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Second generation Swiss-Americans dressed as Swiss immigrants for 1905 60th Anniversary of the founding of New Glarus. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Children of striking Peyton Packing Company workers, all of Latin American descent, with gifts sent by union members in Wichita Kansas. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Aleksendra Zukowska, a Russian Pole who was a machine hand at an International Harvester Twine Mill, probably in Chicago. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Stanley Labonowski, a 29 year-old Lithuanian grain binder builder at International Harvester's McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Jean Cassius, a French machinist for International Harvester, most likely in Chicago. |
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