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2 Christmas on the boat

  • sunangel15
  • Jan 24, 2024
  • 1 min read

Updated: Feb 14, 2024


You are crossing the ocean with other immigrants. Crowded, seasickness…but it is Christmas!


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Sound like a wonderful Christmas?



Reference:

Grace Michael, ‘Historical Look at Ellis Island and Immigration’, Cruising the Past: Travel and Social History (25 February 2022) <https://www.cruiselinehistory.com/historical-look-at-ellis-island-and-immigration/>

‘Oral History Library’, Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation <https://heritage.statueofliberty.org/oral-history-library>

1 Comment


Roberta Bivins
Roberta Bivins
Feb 27, 2024

I would definitely be the one getting sick, not the one eating cookies!

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HI3H7: Foreign Bodies, Contagious Communities: Migration in the Modern World - Public History Project

University of Warwick

February 2024

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