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Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1h273.html
The Conestoga wagon was first designed and built by German settlers in Pennsylvania.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/imde/germchro.html
Painting of Quakers and Indians in historic Pennsylvania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:QuakersPennsylvanie.jpg
Andrew Carnagie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland in 1835 and immigrated to the US at age 12 with his younger brother Thomas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie
A painting of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania a town founded by German speaking Morovians in 1841
http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/imde/germchro.html
1850 During Irish Potato Famine
http://www.atmosphere.mpg.de/enid/0,55a304092d09/1__Past_and_present/-_history_26h.html
1860 The slave ship Wildfire. Legal importation of slaves ended in 1808.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1b.html
1864 Castle Garden in New York City. The scene shows recruitment officers trying to recruit immigrants for the army during the Civil War
http://www.norwayheritage.com/castle-garden.htm
1869 Chinese immigrants work on the Central Pacific Railroad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolie
Several thousand German speaking Russian immigrants settled in Kansas in 1874
http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1974/74_1_saul.htm
1883 Immigrants to Baltimore
http://www.intandem.com/NewPrideSite/MD/Lesson21/Lesson21_1.html
The Statue of Liberty - A gift from France in 1886
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_liberty
1898 A sod house in North Dakota
http://sio.midco.net/danstopicalstamps/sodhouse.htm
1898 A sod house stamp
http://sio.midco.net/danstopicalstamps/sodhouse.htm
1900 Chinese Immigrants
http://bilan.usherbrooke.ca/bilan/pages/photos/2946.html
Free land in Canada also
http://www.civilization.ca/hist/advertis/ads1-01f.html
Nicola Tesla, a famous American inventor, was a Serbian, born in Croatia, who became and American in 1891.
http://th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/physstamps.html
Mother and two daughters from the Netherlands
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=481281&imageID=1206548&word=dutch%20immigrants&s=1¬word=&d=&c=&f=&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&total=8&num=0&imgs=12&pNum=&pos=5#
1909 Lithuanian wedding
http://www.queenstribune.com/archives/anniversaryarchive/anniversary2000/journey.htm
Shaker Dining Room, Watervliet, New York. Shakers, along with Quakers originated in England.
http://shakerworkshops.com/resources/who-are-the-shakers/life-with-the-shakers/
Koreans came to Hawaii as plantation workers
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2003/Jan/12/ln/ln10a.html
1911 Immigrant Loyalty
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm119.html
1911 Russian-Jewish Immigrants
http://www.theshipslist.com/pictures/russian.htm
1911 Ellis Island
http://www.ancestorhunt.com/ellis_island_photos_2.html
1912 Four Immigrants and Their Belongings at Ellis Island
http://www.genealogybranches.com/ellisisland/immigrants.html
A mail order bride from Korea in Hawaii, 1913
http://www.kimsoft.com/2003/us-kr-relation.htm
Charlie Chaplin's classic movie "The Immigrant".
http://alri.org/ltc/immigration/More/more.html
1917 Ellis Island
http://www.ancestorhunt.com/ellis_island_photos_2.html
1920 Hungarian immigrants travelling by train
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/trains/kids/h32-300-e.html
Members of community of Portuguese from the Azores which settled on the Sacremento River in California after the gold rush.
http://www.greenhavenpocketneighbors.com/index.php?pageId=174168
1942 Japanese Relocation Camp in California
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/lange/aa_lange_relocation_2_e.html
American War Brides - World War II
http://www.geocities.com/us_warbrides/AmWarBrides/JoanStubbs.html
The Danish Immanuel Lutheran Church in Audubon County, Iowa.
http://www.auduboncounty.com/attractions.asp
1957 This Hungarian refugee arrived in Canada
http://magyarmuzeum.org/uploaded/images/20061106-071637_9.jpg
1967 Citizenship document
http://csumc.wisc.edu/mki/Resources/Archival_Images/US-Canada_Citizenship_Naturalization_entry_docs/certificate.citizenship.html
John Lennon at the Statue of Liberty
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/John-Lennon-at-The-Statue-of-Liberty-Posters_i314804_.htm
Haitians in Miami
http://www.miamiarch.org/ip.asp?op=A154500&lg=E
Jai-Alai, popular in Miami, was introduced by Basque immigrants.
http://www.northernstarnews.com/jaialai.shtml
Mexican migrant laborers
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/migrants-2.htm
Linus Torvalds, an immigrant from Finland, is the developer of the Linux computer operating system.
http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=26158
The Hmong Students Assoc. at Univ. of Minnesotw, recent meeting
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hmsa/retreat.html
2003 These Cubans were intercepted by the Coast Guard
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cuba-immigration.htm
Los Angeles protest against a proposed immigration law, March 2006
http://newmexicomatters.blogs.com/newmexicomatters/060325_immigration_vlrg_12p.widec-tm_1.jpg
Austrian American Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his role as president of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, meets with President George Bush at the White House in January 1990
http://www.everyculture.com/multi/A-Br/Austrian-Americans.html
US Senator Barack Obama and his wife Michelle show support for HIV testing in Kenya, the land of his father.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/26/ap/health/mainD8JO4QQO0.shtml
Immigrant family in South Dakota 2007
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://southdakotapolitics.blogs.com/south_dakota_politics/images/2007/06/24/immigration_family_004.jpg&imgrefurl=http://southdakotapolitics.blogs.com/south_dakota_politics/2007/week26/index.html&h=586&w=480&sz=86&hl=en&start=94&sig2=5P7L6YbqSp3iM3H0EnHMkA&um=1&tbnid=lBUQYNZRgObTwM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=111&ei=OoGPR_i5JqSaecXgrZUO&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dimmigration%26start%3D90%26ndsp%3D18%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
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