Portugese Workers at the California Cotton Mills

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Portuguese workers at the California Cotton Mills, Fruitvale 1895
Courtesy of the Oakland History Room, Oakland main library
 
The first waves of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe began filling the landscape with new stories in the late 1800s.
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