EVB2936915: Anti-Immigrant cartoon showing two men with barrels as bodies, labeled 'Irish Wiskey' and 'Lager Bier', carrying a ballot box. In the background is a rioting crowd at a polling place. Nativism, a social and political movement that opposed immigration of Catholic Irish, non-Protestants, and non-English speaking peoples. c. 1850 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936936: Rag Picker's court, Mulberry Street, 1879. Many poor immigrants started at the bottom of the economic ladder, as rag pickers, who collected useable refuse for reprocessing, essentially recycling in an economy of scarcity. At lower right men carry bundles collected rags. Above, laundered rags are hung out to dry after cleaning / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936948: Political cartoon showing Iroquois women on cliff overlooking women marching with banner 'woman suffrage.' It's caption reads: Savagery to 'civilization'--The Indian women: We whom you pity as drudges reached centuries ago the goal that you are now nearing. By Udo Keppler for PUCK Magazine, May 1914 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936951: Nora Stanton Blatch (1883-1971), was the first U.S. woman to earn a degree in civil engineering and gain admission to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). She also followed her grandmother, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as a leader in the campaign for women's rights / Bridgeman Images