Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Virtual Exhibition: Immigration and Caricature (Michigan State Univ)

Click here for the Immigration and Caricature Exhibition

Note that there are three sections: (I) Welcome to All; (II) Caricature and Stereotype; (III) Assimilation and Acceptance.

Photographs from the Children’s Aid Society (Italian) Settlement House

Click here for the Children's Aid Society Five Points (Italian) House Photographs
The 24 photos may be scrolled by clicking the left and right arrows above the frame once you're on the site.

Click here for an explanation of the Children's Aid Society initiative

Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine

Jacob Riis, excerpt from How the Other Half Lives (1890).

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Jacob Riis, Bandit's Roost (1890)

Jacob Riis, Scene in Tenement (1890)

Jacob Riis, Street Arabs (1890)

Jacob Riis, Tenement Life (1890)

Jacob Riis, The Bend (1890)

Lewis Hine, Homework on Pants (1905)

Lewis Hine, Italian Family Looking for Lost Bags (1905)

Lewis Hine, Italian Madonna (1905)

Lewis Hine, Making Pillow Lace (1911)

Lewis Hine, New York Tenement (1910)

Lewis Hine, Polish Steelworker (1908)

Lewis Hine, Portrait of an Immigrant (1915)