nmah sweatshop exhibition -- 3d immigrant chart

Early in the 19th century, England, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia supplied the majority of immigrants to the United States. By the 1880s, immigrants increasingly came from central and southern Europe. By 1907, immigrants from Italy, Russia, and Austria-Hungary accounted for 75 percent of new arrivals.

U.S. Civil War mounted-artillery corporal's jacket, early 1860s

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