SHIPS - Italian Immigration to U.S. in the Early 20th Century @ShipHistory

Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

This film details the history of Italian Immigration to the United States via steamship in the early 20th century, through the eyes of Gerardo D'Amico. Learn about the business of the immigrant trade and how changing laws and anti-immigration sentiment in America forced the steamship companies to focus more on pleasure cruising. This film provides primary source images from the SSHSA Archive as well as images from personal collections of the D'Amico family and Ted Scull. Images and video from the Library of Congress and in the public domain are also used.

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