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  • Sam Darling

Immigration, 1950s style

My mother and her parents were the first members of my family to immigrate to the new world, and they did it with their usual glamor.

Aboard the ship. Her new step father moves my nine-year old mother and his new wife to America from southern France.


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The first people in my family to hit the new world. New York City, 1953.


New York, NY 1953. Rockefeller Center

Roger the engineer’s love of gadgets is the reason I have so many wonderful photos to share with the world.

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