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Outside/Inside: Immigration, Migration, and Health Care in the United States

Resources and Information to support the NLM Traveling Exhibit Outside/Inside: Immigration, Migration, and Health Care in the United States

Angel Island

Ellis Island

Immigration Images

Three ghost-like shapes with the words malaria, smallpox, and leprosy on them

"The Wasp"

Source: Image: George Frederick Keller/‘The Wasp’ via The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0

Empty steel beds arranged in dormitory/vertical rows

Angel Island Dormitory

Dormitory at US Immigration Station, Angel Island, San Francisco Bay, between 1890 and 1943.

Credit: Hart Hyatt North/University of California/Wikimedia Commons

Image of immigrants filtered through metal sieve to indicate quotas. 3% written on small sign

Immigration Quota

A 1921 political cartoon portrays America’s new immigration quotas, influenced by popular anti-immigrant and nativist sentiment stemming from World War I conflict.

Credit: the Library of Congress

Billings

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