Illustration depicting Germans emigrating to America in the 19th century

This sketch, entitled ‘From the old to the new world’, shows German emigrants boarding a ship in Hamburg on their way to America. The illustration was published in Harper’s Weekly in 1874 and is now in the public domain.

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