1. Title page of the journal Nimm mich mit (Take me along), 1906.


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2. "The German Emigrant." A cartoonist's view of the emigrant's dream and the harsh realities of America. From the satirical magazine Fliegenda Blätter (1845).

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3. The conestoga wagon got its name from a creek near the Germantown, Pa. shop where it was built. It became the "prairie ship" when the frontier moved west.


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4. Women at the canning factory of the H.J. Heinz Co. in Pittsburgh.


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