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New York Herald, A Home for Immigrant Girls Father Riordan's Successor at Castle Garden Makes an Appeal

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New York Herald, A Home for Immigrant Girls Father Riordan's Successor at Castle Garden Makes an Appeal, 12-25-1887

basically, a new priest is getting appointed and he's saying how the previous priest did so well with the immigrants and how we need to keep that up

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New York Tribune, The Immigrant Rate War. Commissioner Fink's Statement. Rival Roads Busy At Castle Garden--Success Of; Article Type: News/Opinion

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New York Tribune, The Immigrant Rate War. Commissioner Fink's Statement. Rival Roads Busy At Castle Garden--Success Of; Article Type: News/Opinion, 04-24-1888

seems that they made a new law to make it harder to discriminate against immigrants traveling

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Robert Bracklow, Jewish Cemetery, Chatham Square

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Robert Bracklow, Jewish Cemetery, Chatham Square, 1870-1910

View of the First Shearith Israel Graveyard (or Chatham Square Cemetery) at 55-57 St. James Place in what is now Chinatown, laundry is strung out to…

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Jacob August Riis, American, born Denmark, Ribe, Denmark, 1849-1914, Barre, Massachusetts, Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement--"Five Cents a Spot"

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Jacob August Riis, American, born Denmark, Ribe, Denmark, 1849-1914, Barre, Massachusetts, Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement--"Five Cents a Spot", 1889

Group of immigrants sitting in a tenement house similar to the last one

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Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914), In Poverty Gap, West Twenty-Eighth St. An English Coal-Heaver's Home.

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Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914), In Poverty Gap, West Twenty-Eighth St. An English Coal-Heaver's Home., ca. 1890

Picture of a family in supplemental housing

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New York Herald, Glance at New York. Population of the State and City

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New York Herald, Glance at New York. Population of the State and City, April 11, 1869

description of how things like immigration affected prices of homes

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