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Jersey City, New Jersey

Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.
Your Vietnamese coffee probably comes out of this tin.
food

The Secret Ingredient to America's Vietnamese Coffee

Chicory blends from New Orleans provided a taste of home.
Anne Ewbank February 5, 2018
Mmmmmmm.
food

Wishlist: A Pan for Making Danish Pancake Puffs

Smother your troubles in pancake puffs.
Sarah Laskow February 1, 2018
The Star Noodle dragon, pictured at night.
film

The Utah Noodle Parlor That's Seemingly All Over 'Blade Runner'

Its neon dragon sign is beloved by science fiction fans and a small city.
Paula Mejia January 11, 2018
Alice Lee Hum with her mother Jean, at a laundry on 21st Ave in Astoria, Queens, c. 1951.
immigration

How Childhoods Spent in Chinese Laundries Tell the Story of America

The laundry: a place to play, grow up, and live out memories both bitter and sweet.
Eveline Chao January 3, 2018
Pomerode's German architecture on display at the Carl Weege house museum.
Pomerode, Brazil

Carl Weege Immigrant House Museum

The preserved home of the first settler of "the most German town in Brazil."
Caciocavallo dell'emigrante
Gastro Obscura

Caciocavallo of the Migrant

To circumvent a meat ban, Italian immigrants hid their soppressata in balls of cheese.
Schlaraffia Room.
Chicago, Illinois

DANK Haus German American Cultural Center

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.
A quilt from the Migrant Quilt Project. The quilts list names of migrants who died in the Arizona desert and incorporate personal items found along migrant routes, such as jeans and handkerchiefs.
art

The Migrant Quilt Project Remembers Lives Lost Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

Each quilt represents one year of fatalities and incorporates personal items found in the desert.
Katherine Davis-Young November 17, 2017
All pieces of art are donated to this illegal museum.
Rome, Italy

Metropoliz Museum of the Other and the Elsewhere

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.
This temporary American passport was issued to a family traveling to occupied Germany to visit their father, who was in the Air Force.
immigration

The History of Passport Photos, From 'Anything Goes' to Today's Mugshots

People have always hated how they look in them.
Natasha Frost September 8, 2017
A plaster nativity scene at the museum.
Coreglia Antelminelli, Italy

Museum of Plaster Figurines and Emigration

The link between these two seemingly disparate themes is crucial to the history of this Tuscan hill town.
Albert Einstein receiving his certificate of American citizenship from Judge Phillip Forman in 1940.
radio

How FDR Used Famous Immigrants to Extoll America’s Greatness

"I’m an American" was the U.S. government's attempt to promote tolerance in the run-up to World War II.
Sarah Laskow April 27, 2017
The Eldridge Street Synagogue and Museum.
New York, New York

Museum at Eldridge Street

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.
Downtown Guelph's Naked Fountain Family.
Guelph, Ontario

Naked Fountain Family

The nude sculpture on this fountain shocked conservative townsfolk when it was first unveiled, but not as much as the dead body found in it decades later.
Hexafoil over concentric circle mark in the clerk's room of the 1825 courhouse at Richmond, Tasmania.
signs

Australian Settlers Used Magic Signs to Keep Evil Away

New efforts to collect evil-averting marks show they were used well into the 19th century.
Sarah Laskow February 24, 2017
Detail from an 1831 illustration of Rhipsalis baccifera.
mystery

The Mystery of the World's Least American Cactus

How did Rhipsalis baccifera cross the ocean?
Cara Giaimo February 8, 2017
"America—A Nation of One People From Many Countries," by Emma Bourne published in 1940 by the Council Against Intolerance in America.
maps

The Powerful 1940 Map That Depicts America as a Nation of Immigrants

It was produced by the Council Against Intolerance in the lead up to World War II.
Lauren Young February 6, 2017