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The newest exhibit featured at the Museum of Photography presentsthe faces and voices of 125 American men, women and children who were part of those great cycles of immigration between 1814 and 1914.During that hundred-year period, photography was seen as an almost magical new technology. Even the very poorest citizens, some newly arrived from other countries, pinched and scraped to save enough money to immortalize their image for posterity. So in this exhibit we find salesgirls, butchers, street-sweepers, and factory workers in their very finest clothes, posing uncomfortably in artificialtableaus of grand, elegantdrawing rooms and gardens.

The Museum’s curators were able to find immigrants from that 100-year window who had documented both the story of their immigrationto America and their own image in the new art of photography. Beingable to match each story of life in the new land with a face gives eachaccount added power and immediacy.

Those new citizens brought incredible skills, energy, creativity, anddetermination to the task of creating their new lives in the young country. Many were able to experience success and prosperity in theirown lifetime. And even more were able to watch their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren achieve increasingly higher levels of education, health and prosperity.

BUILDINGNATIONHow a Century of Immigration Transformed Life in America

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Starting in 1815, and continuing for the next 33 years, some three million people sailedto the fledgling American nation from Western Europe because of poverty and hungerthere. Two-thirds of these early immigrants came from Ireland, where the severe potatofamine of 1845 drove one and a half million people to abandon their homeland and tobegin a new life in the United States in the years just before the American Civil War.

The last great transforming wave of immigration after the Civil brought almost 16 millionpeople primarily from Southern and Eastern Europe to America’s shores – largely fromItaly, Poland and Russia. The total, 100-year period of immigration from Western Europe,and later from Southern and Eastern Europe, transformed the United States from asparsely populated nation with a sleepy agrarian economy into a industrial colossusconected by a network of railways that linked huge, over-crowded cities.

These immigrants’ voices speak to us now – of struggles, tragedies and sorrows in thedifficult process of building a nation. But we also hear their stories of achievement, joyand pride as they watched dreams come to life for themselves, their families and theirdescendants. Similar stories of sorrow and triumph are being created as new immigrantsarrive every hour of every day in the United States. Let us hope we welcome them andhonor their stories as effectively as this new exhibit does for those featured 125American citizens.

This inspiring photography exhibit continues at the Museum of Photography until March2nd, 2008, after which it will travel to major museums in Chicago, Atlanta, St. Louis,Dallas, Miami and San Francisco.

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