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1922
New York City


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"Little Old New York"

"Little Old New York"
Brought forward for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: CITIES
Taken by Harry or Agnes King in 1922 as they came into the New York City harbor as immigrants from Britain.
I wonder about the other immigrants on the boat. How many of them were successful and happy in America? How many struggled and wished they had never come? How many returned to their homelands?
Despite some late in life tragedies, Harry and Agnes made a good life in America. Harry's mother visited the following year and then joined them in this country several years later.
They never returned to England or Scotland. Harry and Agnes both died in their late 80s and 90s - Harry first in Florida in his late 80s, and Agnes in Vermont, in her late 90s.

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 raingirl
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These are your relations? How do you know such intimate details?

What an amazing photo.
3 years ago.
 Deborah Lundbech
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Hi Laura - Harry and Agnes were my husband's paternal grandparents. I met them in the 80s and saw Agnes in the 1990s, when she had moved to Vermont.
I am blessed with having people on both sides of the family who loved to photograph people and places.
I've always been obsessed with stories as well as photos, so I picked up a lot of info along the way!
I'm glad you like the photo. I look at it and imagine all the people we've read about who lived, wrote, sang, played etc, in NYC in the 1920s - perhaps somewhere in one of these building at that very moment!
3 years ago.

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