From the mid-19th century to the outbreak of the Great War, 2.5 million inhabitants of the partitioned Poland left for the United States. This volume,offering a selection of texts and reportages describing that phenomenon both in historical and contemporary contexts.One the one hand, the simple and austere form of the books echoes the realities that emigrants at the time had to confront. On the other, the gold appearing on its spine metaphorically denotes the striving for a better tomorrow, promised by the“gold-bearing”America, while the typography has been inspired by the old printed material
