• Home
• Tags

immigration

101 photos and 1 illustration tagged immigration, from 16 members of Flickr Commons.

When were these photos & illustrations taken?

Where were these photos & illustrations tagged?

Show photos30% of these photos & illustrations are geotagged.

Related tags

Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:

• immigrants
• migrants
• postwarmigration
• migrant
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• galtmuseum
• galtarchives
• settlement
• libraryofcongress
• alberta
• southernalberta
• ethnicgroups
• lethbridge
• ellisisland
• refugee
• germany
• immigrant
• texas
• australia
• emigration
• internationalrefugeeorganization
• czechoslovakianmigrant
• travel
• lithuania

Members using this tag

• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 29 photos & illustrations
• Galt Museum & Archives on The Commons 20 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 19 photos & illustrations
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 9 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 5 photos & illustrations
• New York Public Library 4 photos & illustrations
• Cornell University Library 4 photos & illustrations
• Center for Jewish History, NYC 3 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 2 photos & illustrations
• George Eastman Museum 1 photo / illustration
• JWA Commons 1 photo / illustration
• Florida Memory 1 photo / illustration

Conversations

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos & illustrations:

Party after a game of bocce, Thulimbah, ca. 1949

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  You can think of modern bowling as a distant cousin of bocce. The Latin word bottia (ball) is the root of the Italian word boccia or bocce. During a game a ball is either rolled or tossed underhanded down a long lane with the aim of coming to rest near a smaller target ball called a pallino or boccino. Many people, such as Galileo and DaVinci, played bocce during the Renaissance, seeing its benefits to mind and body. It was also played by emperors, admirals, generals, poets, sculptors and scientists. Bocce was also exported to many countries by Italian migrants, and remains popular with bocce courts and clubs throughout the world. No one really knows how old bocce is. There were stone balls found in Turkey that date to 9,000 B.C. Some say bocce dates back to ancient Egypt (5,200 B.C.), but others argue that Greece was its birthplace around 600 B.C. When you really think about the simplest game a child can play – tossing a stone – you might think of bocce as the very first game man ever played. Even the child’s game of Marbles is based on bocce. Source: orderisda.org/culture/sports/italian-sport-the-history-of...

Photograph of Arthur, Valerie and Walter Lederer

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

• spelio said:

  An inspiring story from before the War.. www.nytimes.com/2015/07/02/world/europe/nicholas-winton-i... Nicholas Winton, a Briton who said nothing for a half-century about his role in organizing the escape of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, a righteous deed like those of Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg, died on Wednesday in Maidenhead, England. He was 106.

• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:

  Appreciate the link to the NY Times article Bill. Thanks :)

James Dodge and family posed in horse drawn wagon

from Galt Museum & Archives on The Commons

• Wolf251982 said:

  Beautiful Mules