Coming to America: Three Immigration Stories

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Mar 9 2019 - May 27 2019

The immigration experience will be explored in three compelling portrayals inspired by personal experience, bringing to life the realities of traveling to, and adapting to, a new world thousands of miles away from home. Works that will be featured will include Crossing on Time: Steam Engines, Fast Ships, and a Journey to a New World by David Macaulay, which documents both his own family’s immigration story and the state-of-the art ship that made high-speed travel possible; Refuge by Frances Jetter, an illustrated history of her grandfather’s immigration from Poland, his labor union, and his American family in Brooklyn; and Leaving China, a memoir by James McMullan inspired by his World War II childhood.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.

  • Various Media
  • International
  • Contemporary
  • Culture / Lifestyle
  • David Macaulay
  • Frances Jetter
  • James McMullan

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