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Immigration

Alice Lee Hum with her mother Jean, at a laundry on 21st Ave in Astoria, Queens, c. 1951.

How Childhoods Spent in Chinese Laundries Tell the Story of America

The laundry: a place to play, grow up, and live out memories both bitter and sweet.

Eveline Chao January 3, 2018

Pomerode's German architecture on display at the Carl Weege house museum.

Pomerode, Brazil

Carl Weege Immigrant House Museum

The preserved home of the first settler of "the most German town in Brazil."

Caciocavallo dell'emigrante

Caciocavallo of the Migrant

To circumvent a meat ban, Italian immigrants hid their soppressata in balls of cheese.

Schlaraffia Room.

Chicago, Illinois

DANK Haus German American Cultural Center

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

A quilt from the Migrant Quilt Project. The quilts list names of migrants who died in the Arizona desert and incorporate personal items found along migrant routes, such as jeans and handkerchiefs.

The Migrant Quilt Project Remembers Lives Lost Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

Each quilt represents one year of fatalities and incorporates personal items found in the desert.

Katherine Davis-Young November 17, 2017

All pieces of art are donated to this illegal museum.

Metropoliz Museum of the Other and the Elsewhere

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

This temporary American passport was issued to a family traveling to occupied Germany to visit their father, who was in the Air Force.

The History of Passport Photos, From 'Anything Goes' to Today's Mugshots

People have always hated how they look in them.

Natasha Frost September 8, 2017

A plaster nativity scene at the museum.

Coreglia Antelminelli, Italy

Museum of Plaster Figurines and Emigration

The link between these two seemingly disparate themes is crucial to the history of this Tuscan hill town.

Albert Einstein receiving his certificate of American citizenship from Judge Phillip Forman in 1940.

How FDR Used Famous Immigrants to Extoll America’s Greatness

"I’m an American" was the U.S. government's attempt to promote tolerance in the run-up to World War II.

Sarah Laskow April 27, 2017

The Eldridge Street Synagogue and Museum.

New York, New York

Museum at Eldridge Street

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

Downtown Guelph's Naked Fountain Family.

Guelph, Ontario

Naked Fountain Family

The nude sculpture on this fountain shocked conservative townsfolk when it was first unveiled, but not as much as the dead body found in it decades later.

Hexafoil over concentric circle mark in the clerk's room of the 1825 courhouse at Richmond, Tasmania.

Australian Settlers Used Magic Signs to Keep Evil Away

New efforts to collect evil-averting marks show they were used well into the 19th century.

Sarah Laskow February 24, 2017

Detail from an 1831 illustration of Rhipsalis baccifera.

The Mystery of the World's Least American Cactus

How did Rhipsalis baccifera cross the ocean?

Cara Giaimo February 8, 2017

"America—A Nation of One People From Many Countries," by Emma Bourne published in 1940 by the Council Against Intolerance in America.

The Powerful 1940 Map That Depicts America as a Nation of Immigrants

It was produced by the Council Against Intolerance in the lead up to World War II.

Lauren Young February 6, 2017

Ishkashim Market

Ishkashim, Afghanistan

Ishkashim Border Market

A strip of neutral ground where the people of Tajikistan and Afghanistan come together to trade.

Immigrants walking across the pier at Ellis Island, early 20th century.

In China, Searching to Fill Mysterious Gaps in the Family Tree

China’s revolution made it difficult for Chinese abroad to stay in contact with their families. Now many in the diaspora are searching for their roots.

Veronique Greenwood December 15, 2016

Statues at the front gate of the temple depict the unearthing of the god's image from the anthill.

Hyderabad, India

Visa Balaji Temple

A centuries-old shrine where Indians pray for U.S. visas.

This depicts the unearthing of the god's image from the anthill.

The Centuries-Old Shrine Where Indians Pray for U.S. Visas

It has a decent track record.

Michael Schulson September 13, 2016