| 1. | The emigrants in sight of the grey-green statue of Liberty in New York Harbour | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE |
| 2. | Russian women on board— | |
| (a) The peasant | [12] |
| (b) The intellectual and revolutionary type | [12] |
| 3. | The boisterous Flemings | [14] |
| 4. | (a) The dreamy Norwegian with the concertina | [18] |
| (b) The endless dancing | [18] |
| 5. | (a) A Russian Jew | [26] |
| (b) "A patriarchal Jew, very tall and gaunt, hauled along a small fat woman of his race" | [26] |
| 6. | "One of the young ladies was being tossed up in a blanket with a young Irish lad" (p. 25) | [30] |
| 7. | (a) English | [36] |
| (b) Russians—Fedya, Satiron, Alexy, Yoosha, Karl, Maxim Holost | [36] |
| 8. | Dainty Swedish girls and their partners looking over the sea | [44] |
| 9. | Apple orchards in blossom on the spurs of the Catskills | [84] |
| 10. | On the way to school: my breakfast party | [92] |
| 11. | The tramp's dressing-room | [110] |
| 12. | By the side of the highway to Michigan: the electric freight train | [120] |
| 13. | An Indiana farm: the wind-well behind it, the wheatfield in front | [142] |
| 14. | "The cream-vans come along and buy up all the cream" (p. 261) | [152] |
| 15. | "Ploughed upland all dotted over with white heaps of fertiliser" (p. 161) | [158] |
| 16. | "Slovaks working on the line with pick and shovel" | [166] |
| 17. | The Slav children of Snow-Shoe Creek | [174] |
| 18. | Italians working with the "mixer" on the Meadville Pike | [200] |
| 19. | Ingenious photographs of American types | [212] |
| 20. | The Lithuanian who sat behind the asphalt and coal-oil scatterer | [226] |
| 21. | "Johnny Kishman, a German boy, got off his bicycle to find out what manner of man I was" (p. 233) | [234] |
| 22. | Erie Shore. "Amidst old logs, under a stooping willow tree, I made my bed" (p. 235) | [238] |
| 23. | The sower | [252] |
| 24. | The store on wheels | [258] |
| 25. | "I had an interesting talk with an ancient man by the side of the road" | [262] |
| 26. | "Old Samuel Judie, lying on a bank, and philosophising on life" | [270] |
| 27. | At the fountain in the park: a hot day in Chicago | [276] |