1 10 7 https://mirrorofrace.bc.edu/files/original/19b35c45451f81732caf827235488c1a.jpg e6ddaeae91de156617d5af6b3dd49d38 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coming to America Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Exhibition Name Name of the exhibition in which the item appears Coming to America Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Tintype Factual Commentary Factual Commentary There is something touching about this image of a young woman — just a girl, really — in a traditional, local European costume, waving an American flag as she comes ashore in an elaborate studio prop of a rowboat. It is as if she had rowed herself over from Europe to America. In this naïve hopefulness, she seems embody the most positive aspirations of the waves of millions of immigrants who came from Europe in the latter part of the 19th century. If any viewer can identify what region her costume comes from, we would like to hear from you. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Figure 1 Title A name given to the resource Anonymous woman Subject The topic of the resource Anonymous woman Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource anonymous photographer Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1870s Type The nature or genre of the resource Studio Portrait Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Gregory Fried Collection https://mirrorofrace.bc.edu/files/original/e2ab3b643e6ec7200892f7178869de25.tif d1063990c5d0c41bae308f28f939d88e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coming to America Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Exhibition Name Name of the exhibition in which the item appears Coming to America Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Daguerreotype Factual Commentary Factual Commentary We can be quite confident that these are an Irish man and boy, possibly (even probably) recent immigrants, because of the very distinct style of drum that the man holds. It is an Irish bodhran, played with a short wooden striker that is twirled by the fingers, and which can just be seen as a blur in the man’s hand. Thousands upon thousands of Irish left Ireland for America during the Potato Famines, around the time this photograph was taken (cir cal 1850). They faced often intense discrimination for their religion, and Protestant Anglo-Saxons often did not accept the Irish as properly “white.” Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Figure 2 Title A name given to the resource Man and boy with Irish bodhran and fiddle Subject The topic of the resource Man and boy with Irish bodhran and fiddle Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource anonymous photographer Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1850 Type The nature or genre of the resource Studio Portrait Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Greg French Collection https://mirrorofrace.bc.edu/files/original/8058112262c95ec738f26bdca38fbfe4.tif 6034d18bced7aa7905c750ba534b8738 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coming to America Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Exhibition Name Name of the exhibition in which the item appears Coming to America Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Carte de visite Factual Commentary Factual Commentary In another double-exposure portrait, Moung Kyau (1841-1883) poses in the traditional clothes of the Karen people from Burma, where he was born, and Western dress. Kyau was not an immigrant but rather a visitor to the United States: he converted to Christianity in Burma, came to America to study the ministry at college, and returned to Burma to do missionary work there. Temporary visitors like Kyau might be treated with considerable interest, both both because their exotic background evoked curiosity and because their conversion to both Christianity and white Western customs confirmed a sense of cultural triumph for whites. Kyau himself seems to give equal weight here to each side of his double identity. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Figure 5 Title A name given to the resource Moung Kyau Subject The topic of the resource Moung Kyau Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dudley (Hamilton, New York) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date: circa 1865 Type The nature or genre of the resource Studio Portrait Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Greg French Collection https://mirrorofrace.bc.edu/files/original/953960dd5fadd238081dce9518b00946.tif 0e1a5dfca1339812e9f653dfcaae801f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coming to America Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Exhibition Name Name of the exhibition in which the item appears Coming to America Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Cabinet photograph Factual Commentary Factual Commentary N. A. Morjickian poses here in a double exposure photograph, showing himself in conventional western European clothes on the left and in traditional clothes on the right. In his autobiographical book, life of morjickian , he tells how he was born in Armenia in 1863, came to America, and entered Ohio Wesleyan University in 1882, all of which he obviously took pride in. Does an image like this demonstrate the possibility of integrating an American identity and one from the immigrant’s land of origin, or does it visually underline the schism between the two, and what is the fate of so many immigrants in America: that within a few generations, the former eclipses the latter? Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Figure 4 Title A name given to the resource N. A. Morjickian Subject The topic of the resource N. A. Morjickian Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource G. C. Urlin (Columbus, Ohio) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date: 1886 Type The nature or genre of the resource Studio Portrait Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Greg French Collection https://mirrorofrace.bc.edu/files/original/57be14dcd684817e4fe61082797c59a6.jpg 8f2fb15372af6c5edfee393cd7503252 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coming to America Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Exhibition Name Name of the exhibition in which the item appears Coming to America Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Carte de visite Factual Commentary Factual Commentary The two chidden, probably no more than 10 years old, seem to be Irish dancers. The pose in costume, in position to perform. The photographer has provided an elaborate painted backdrop of the interior of a rustic cottage to evoke old Ireland, complete with a jug on the floor. This suggests some serious planning, and expense, for this portrait, and these two may have been professional sibling performers. The boy’s costume is particularly distinctive, with a stylized top hat, swallow-tailed jacket, knee breeches, and a shillalagh. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Figure 3 Title A name given to the resource Irish dancers Subject The topic of the resource Irish dancer Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jason L. Warner (New York, New York) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860s Type The nature or genre of the resource Studio Portrait Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Gregory Fried Collection https://mirrorofrace.bc.edu/files/original/8ea31de89716d2fa243785b687cc5475.tif 85967b2840a2336a0774e99099a94a07 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coming to America Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Exhibition Name Name of the exhibition in which the item appears Coming to America Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Cabinet photograph Factual Commentary Factual Commentary This portrait is a visual echo of the two previous ones, though it is not a double exposure but rather a father and son from the Pawnee tribe. Like the double exposures, it too marks a cultural transition in identity, but here between generations rather than in a single person. Native Americans are precisely that: <i>native</i> to this land. In a nation of immigrants, they are the exception. And yet, in the harsh irony of history, the son has, in a sense, immigrated to “America” (itself a European name for the so-called New World) by adopting Western dress. For many Native Americans, this cultural colonialism was not a choice, it was forced upon them, though that does not seem to be the case here. Despite all the suffering that transition caused to so many, these two men, at least here, seem entirely self-possessed, in stances that mirror one another. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Figure 6 Title A name given to the resource Kritkahock George and William Polack, Pawnee father and son Subject The topic of the resource Kritkahock George and William Polack, Pawnee father and son Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Morris (Lawrence, Kansas) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date: circa 1885 Type The nature or genre of the resource Studio Portrait Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Greg French Collection https://mirrorofrace.bc.edu/files/original/481344c5a17855aa215803b584328361.tif c052ff6369534e4bbb450236e3c66145 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coming to America Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Exhibition Name Name of the exhibition in which the item appears Coming to America Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Tintype Factual Commentary Factual Commentary The Statue of Liberty was erected in 1886 in New York’s harbor. With its place close by Ellis Island, a processing center for immigrant arrivals, it became a symbol of the the hope those immigrants brought with them to America. Here, two African American women pose before a photographer’s painted backdrop of the Statue. Blacks have been coming to America for centuries, but for most over that time, their coming was not a free choice — it was brutally coerced. Yet in this image, there is a glint of hope that there might be a new and freely chosen arrival, even for African Americans already long here, in an America more truly open to all comers. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Figure 7 Title A name given to the resource Two women with Statue of Liberty backdrop Subject The topic of the resource Two women with Statue of Liberty backdro Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date: circa late 1880s to 1890s Type The nature or genre of the resource Studio Portrait Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Greg French Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unknown Photographer Photographer photographer