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From the World to Lynn: Stories of Immigration A Multimedia Exhibit by Andrea Patiño Contreras
From the World to Lynn: Stories of Immigration, composed of black-and-white photographs, audio oral histories, and an interactive website, is the product of an independent project Andrea Patiño Contreras undertook while in Lynn, Massachusetts, as a Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow, to help her better understand the community in which she was working.
The fabric of a city is woven of many threads, and Lynn, Massachusetts, is particularly colorful. The city’s history of industrial success—especially at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries—paved the way for a profoundly diverse population to settle in the area, as people from numerous countries sought better opportunities. The boom years are long gone, but diversity is an evolving mainstay. One can move through the weat...
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From the World to Lynn: Stories of Immigration, composed of black-and-white photographs, audio oral histories, and an interactive website, is the product of an independent project Andrea Patiño Contreras undertook while in Lynn, Massachusetts, as a Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow, to help her better understand the community in which she was working.
The fabric of a city is woven of many threads, and Lynn, Massachusetts, is particularly colorful. The city’s history of industrial success—especially at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries—paved the way for a profoundly diverse population to settle in the area, as people from numerous countries sought better opportunities. The boom years are long gone, but diversity is an evolving mainstay. One can move through the weat...