Some of Our Immigrants 



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Cossack Immigrants, of whom about 5,500 were admitted in 1906 



SOME OF OUR IMMIGRANTS 



THE following series of illustra- 

 tions, showing different types 

 of the immigrants who are now 

 pouring into the United States in even 

 greater numbers than in 1905 and 1906, 

 were obtained through the courtesy of 

 Hon. F. P. Sargent, Commissioner Gen- 

 eral of Immigration. The immigrants 

 were photographed immediately after dis- 

 embarking, and are here shown just as 

 they landed, most of them being still 

 clad in their native costume, which will 

 be discarded, however, within a few 

 hours. 



No migration in history is comparable 

 to the great hordes that have crossed the 

 Atlantic during the past 20 years to 

 enter our territory. In 1905, 1,026,499 

 immigrants were admitted ; in 1906, 

 1,100,735, and in the present year the 

 total will exceed the record of 1906 by 

 many thousands. Since June 30, 1900, 

 6,000,000 have been admitted, of whom 

 probably 5,500,000 have settled perma- 

 nently in the United States. 



The report of Mr Sargent for 1906, 

 recently issued, contains much interesting 

 information about the character and qual- 



