This Photo of U.S. Immigration Isn’t What You Think | The Bigger Picture with Vincent Brown | PBS
Alfred Stieglitz’s iconic photograph “The Steerage” is often used to illustrate the American immigrant experience. Through conversations with curators and historians, host Vincent Brown discovers that there is much more to this image than meets the eye. So he invites viewers to reconsider common assumptions about immigration to the U.S. in the early 20th century.
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