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United States - Emigration and immigration

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Emigration and Immigration

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Images about United States - Emigration and immigration

2 images from works
  • Irish emigrants in America: a woman with two children, and a man sitting outside an inn smoking a pipe. Coloured etching after William Heath.
  • An Irishman looks at a poster advertising voyages to New York and resolves to emigrate. Coloured lithograph after E. Nicol, ca. 1840/1860.

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    Irish emigrants in America: a woman with two children, and a man sitting outside an inn smoking a pipe. Coloured etching after William Heath.

    Heath, William, 1795-1840. | Reference: 32851i
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    The strangers we became : lessons in exile from one of Iraq's last Jews / Cynthia Kaplan Shamash.

    Shamash, Cynthia Kaplan | Date: [2015]
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    An Irishman looks at a poster advertising voyages to New York and resolves to emigrate. Coloured lithograph after E. Nicol, ca. 1840/1860.

    Nicol, Erskine, 1825-1904. | Date: [not after 1867] | Reference: 589285i

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