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Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans

Americanization class, Portland, 1924

Americanization class, Portland, 1924

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Many of the immigrants came through the Immigration Inspection or Quarantine Station at House Island in Casco Bay, where in 1913 alone 26,421 people first landed in the United States.