Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

Looking Backward. They Would Close to the New-Comer the Bridge That Carried Them and Their Fathers Over.

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  • In the mid-1880s the number of immigrants to the United States from northern and western Europe declined sharply. At the same time, the number of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe greatly increased. The changing pattern of immigration concerned many Americans who believed the newcomers represented, in the language of the time, inferior “races” of Europeans. The new immigrants were overwhelmingly non-Protestant Christians—either Roman Catholic or Orthodox—or Jewish and thus not Christian at all, which disturbed many Protestant Americans. This cartoon makes an ironic commentary on the children of immigrants rejecting the arrival of new immigrants.
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  • Digital ID: d_500
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  • Puck, vol. 32
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  • Ohio State University. Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
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  • AP101 .P74
Date copyrighted
  • 1893
Date issued
  • January 11, 1893
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  • This item, made available for research and educational purposes, may be protected by copyright; the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status.
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  • mechanical reproduction
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  • chromolithograph
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  • 33.5 x 50.5 cm
Credit line: The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

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