With Poor Immigrants in America. Stephen Graham
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Stephen Graham
With Poor Immigrants in America
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664096838
Table of Contents
II THE ARRIVAL OF THE IMMIGRANT
III THE PASSION OF AMERICA AND THE TRADITION OF BRITAIN
IV INEFFACEABLE MEMORIES OF NEW YORK
VI THE REFLECTION OF THE MACHINE
VII RUSSIANS AND SLAVS AT SCRANTON
XI WAYFARERS OF ALL NATIONALITIES
XV THROUGH THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY
XVI THE CHOIR DANCE OF THE RACES
ILLUSTRATIONS
| 1. | The emigrants in sight of the grey-green statue of Liberty in New York Harbour | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE | ||
| 2. | Russian women on board— | |
| (a) The peasant | 12 | |
| (b) The intellectual and revolutionary type | 12 | |
| 3. | The boisterous Flemings | 14 |
| 4. | (a) The dreamy Norwegian with the concertina | 18 |
| (b) The endless dancing | 18 | |
| 5. | (a) A Russian Jew | 26 |
| (b) "A patriarchal Jew, very tall and gaunt, hauled along a small fat woman of his race" | 26 | |
| 6. | "One of the young ladies was being tossed up in a blanket with a young Irish lad" (p. 25) | 30 |
| 7. | (a) English | 36 |
| (b) Russians—Fedya, Satiron, Alexy, Yoosha, Karl, Maxim Holost | 36 | |
| 8. | Dainty Swedish girls and their partners looking over the sea | 44 |
| 9. | Apple orchards in blossom on the spurs of the Catskills | 84 |
| 10. | On the way to school: my breakfast party | 92 |
| 11. | The tramp's dressing-room | 110 |
| 12. | By the side of the highway to Michigan: the electric freight train | 120 |
| 13. |
An Indiana farm: the wind-well | |