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IMMIGRATION (Purcell, May 1994) : CAPTIONS

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A Mexican-American mother and child, living in migrant workers' housing, during the 1970s. (Photo courtesy State Historical Society of Iowa -- Iowa City)

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A broadside advertisement of the American Emigrant Company, which supplied immigrant workers to American employers for the fee of a dollar a head. The company claimed to have access to large numbers of workers from northern Europe and offered to broker labor contracts or redemptioners. Such immigrant contract labor was outlawed in 1885. (Illustration courtesy State Historical Society of Iowa -- Iowa City)

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The 1844 naturalization certificate of Thomas Banbury, an ...

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