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The flood of immigrants from Europe to America from 1870 to 1910. Traveling experiences of immigrants are depicted.

Contains mix of vintage still images, 1970s interview footage, and a small amount of vintage film footage. Images of an old signs, in Europe, advertising land and promoting the virtues of various of the United states, including: Iowa, Nebraska, California, Kansas, and Dakota. One says "room for millions of immigrants." One cites "free homes." One contains a cartoon image of a grim "old World,"opposite a smiling "New World." Poster for steamship line, Norddeutscher Lloyd, of Bremen. Poster for railroad company. Poster for steamships from Liverpool to New York citing fares from 12 to 30 pounds sterling for "Saloon Passage"; 8 to 10 pounds for Second cabins; and 4 pounds for steerage passage. A Polish publication expressing concern over the "epidemic" of immigration to America. Articles calling for measures to restrict this immigration. Documents in cyrillic that narrator describes as mail from America that Russian officials censor. Samples of letters to relatives back home, from immigrants in America, enclosing steamship tickets, railroad tickets, and the like, that the narrator states "never arrived." Animated map showing the flow of immigrants from interior of Europe to ports of Hamburg, Bremen, and Rotterdam, noting that Hull and Liverpool also prospered on immigrant trade. Note on map states that between 1870 and 1880, two and three quarters of a million American immigrants came from Europe and by 1890, five and a quarter million more had crossed the Atlantic. View of immigrants waiting to be processed by government officials before departure at a port in Europe. People crowded in a long line outside, waiting to enter the office. Views of shanties in a town. A woman is seen describing immigrants' circumstances. Pictures of men women and children traveling by horse-drawn wagons. Actual vintage moving image footage of an old railroad steam locomotive pulling a passenger train into a European train station area circa 1900-1910. View of train station at a European port city. Huge number of people from all over Europe, standing in the courtyard of a train station. A man is seen describing these people as like "coming from another world." A barracks-like housing arrangement for immigrants waiting to pass health screening by the steamship companies, which included carefully examining their hair. A woman who experienced this described her embarrassment at the health examinations.

Date: 1910
Duration: 6 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039767
Short film describing why Europeans emigrated to America around 1900

f Opening image shows handwritten letter written by an imigrant to the U.S. from Europe. Camera pans over various outdoor scenes of the United States, as voices of men and women in the background extols marvels of America. A map of Europe is shown as narrator describes the problems in European countries. A woman sowing seed by hand on a European farm. European farmers using shovels to spread something over a plot of land. A farmer walking behind a plow pulled by a single horse. An old man tells how the land they had in Europe wasn't enough to feed their family of three, So his father decided to come to America (probably in the period from 1880 to 1920).

Date: 1975
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039765
San Francisco Market Street view and earthquake aftermath in 1906; Pan-Pacific Exposition of 1915; mix of actual footage and reenactment scenes.

From a 1961 film: Clip includes mix of reenacted, fictional scenes and authentic period footage from the early 1900's, as follows: Clip opens with fictional re-enacted scenes of immigrants to America from Eastern Europe, around the turn of the 20th Century. Reenacted scene as a woman dances, followed by scene of immigrants crowded into a hall. Arriving immigrants pose for camera. Next scene is actual period footage from the first few years of the 1900s (approximately 1905 or 1906) of a street car traveling along a track on Market Street in San Francisco, California, with early automobile cars and another street car crossing in front of it. The San Francisco Ferry Building clock tower on the Embarcadero is seen in the distance. Next series of scenes are fictional reenactments of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Next is actual period footage of the aftermath of the earthquake, with San Francisco residents walking on a streets in front of a destroyed building. Partial signs are seen on the corner of the building that read "...Standard Paint" and "The Lowe...." Next segment is authentic period footage also, and shows both still image and moving image views of buildings and fountains at the 1915 Pan-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco.

Date: 1915
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048139
Elderly immigrants recall their experiences of painful and horrible journey on sailing ships to America around 1900.

European immigration to America. Elderly immigrants recall their experiences of painful and horrible journey in sailing ships. Opening scene is view from aboard a sailing ship plunging through ocean waters. Next, a man who was an immigrant from Europe being interviewed, discusses his travel difficulties. He talks about crossing the Atlantic in the Steerage. Camera pans across an illustration of passengers in Steerage, suffering with sickness and smell. Next, a woman immigrant mentions being sea sick, all the way. She says her mother feared that she might be thrown overboard if the ship's crew saw how sick a child she was, so she hid her daughter. Next, camera pans briefly over a drawing of travelers in Steerage. Another woman immigrant also remarks about the sea sickness and terrible conditions.

Date: 1975
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039769
European immigrants come to America in sailing ships on difficult passage across the Atlantic ocean circa 1900

Opening scene is view from aboard a sailing ship in rought waters of the Atlantic ocean. Next, a man who was an imigrant from Europe being interviewed, tells how travelers in Steerage didn't want to move because the ship was rolling and shaking so badly. In between views of persons being interviewed, the camera pans and shows closeups of travelers lying about on the deck of a sailing ship, in good weather, so they could get some fresh air and sunshine. (A woman immigrant notes that they were forced to do this by the crew.) Another woman talks about prevalence of head lice and delousing procedures.

Date: 1975
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039770
Otto Von Bismarck, Prince of Wales, Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser William II at the turn of the 20th century.

Earliest motion pictures captured at the turn of the 20th century in Europe. Berlin 1895: Otto Von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany, addresses Germans about the need for 'blood and iron'. Large crowd gathered at a Berlin square to hear him. Next scene is in England, United Kingdom, in 1903: The young boy future Prince of Wales and future King Edward VIII plays with his brother Albert (the future King George VI) and his sister, Mary (Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood) on the grounds of Windsor Castle. The two boys hold toy guns and march. Next images are in Moscow, Russia, in 1907: Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, at a gathering with military officials and other dignitaries. A large crowd outside the palace. Germany, 1910: Kaiser Wilhelm II along with other military officials at an orphanage. Children put up a show for the German Emperor. Orphan children posing with the Kaiser.

Date: 1900
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020544
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