Photograph Analysis

Foreignness of immigrants has been exaggerated and cartoon drawings often resulted in the popular press and in advertising, these negative images of ethnic and racial minorities, establish and strengthen barriers to social progress and integration. At the same time, however, the plight of immigrants (who may be full in tiny apartments, limited for all purposes in the city ghetto and forced to work for poor wages) was of great interest to a group of social reformers and progressive critical around the turn of the century. These critics, and reformers are fighting for improved working conditions, housing, better education for American ...