With Poor Immigrants in America. Stephen Graham

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       Stephen Graham

      With Poor Immigrants in America

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664096838

Table of Contents

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       PROLOGUE

       I THE VOYAGE

       II THE ARRIVAL OF THE IMMIGRANT

       III THE PASSION OF AMERICA AND THE TRADITION OF BRITAIN

       IV INEFFACEABLE MEMORIES OF NEW YORK

       V THE AMERICAN ROAD

       VI THE REFLECTION OF THE MACHINE

       VII RUSSIANS AND SLAVS AT SCRANTON

       VIII AMERICAN HOSPITALITY

       IX OVER THE ALLEGHANIES

       X DECORATION DAY

       XI WAYFARERS OF ALL NATIONALITIES

       XII CHARACTERISTICS

       XIII ALONG ERIE SHORE

       XIV THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE

       XV THROUGH THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY

       XVI THE CHOIR DANCE OF THE RACES

       XVII FAREWELL, AMERICA!

       ADVERTISEMENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

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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