Story of immigration to the US
B/W 1910s - 1920s VS New York City children on street, Lower East Side, playing in water - hoards of children being sprayed with water. Kids sitting on stoop. Boy turns handle on manual merry-go-round, children climb aboard. Street vendor selling flavored ice, CU boy eating ice. MS busy Lower East Side street full of vendors and stalls. PAN up tenement building with laundry drying on clothes lines. PAN up Statue of Liberty, which has scaffolding near its base, and American flags draped on its base.