ILLUSTRATIONS

1. The emigrants in sight of the grey-green statue of Liberty in New York Harbour[Frontispiece]
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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]