The huddled masses /
Visits ships' holds, Ellis Island, and the Lower East Side garment factory sweat shops in order to depict turn-of-the-century immigration. Uses old photographs of the poor immigrants in contrast with oil portraits of tycoons who became rich at their expense.
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| Format: | Video VHS |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Ambrose Video Publishing,
[1988?]
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| Series: | America, a personal history of the United States ;
no. 9. |
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| Summary: | Visits ships' holds, Ellis Island, and the Lower East Side garment factory sweat shops in order to depict turn-of-the-century immigration. Uses old photographs of the poor immigrants in contrast with oil portraits of tycoons who became rich at their expense. |
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| Item Description: | Videocassette release of the series originally broadcast in 1972. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videocassette (52 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. |
| Format: | VHS. |
| Audience: | United States History. |
| Production Credits: | Photography, Roynon Raikes ; camera, Ivor Richardson ; editor, Dan Rae ; music, Charles Tilton ; narrator, Alistair Cooke. |