| 1. | The emigrants in sight of the grey-green statue of Liberty in New York Harbour | Frontispiece |
| | FACING PAGE |
| 2. | Russian women on board— | |
| | (a) The peasant | 12 |
| | (b) The intellectual and revolutionary type | 12 |
| 3. | The boisterous Flemings | 14 |
| 4. | (a) The dreamy Norwegian with the concertina | 18 |
| | (b) The endless dancing | 18 |
| 5. | (a) A Russian Jew | 26 |
| | (b) "A patriarchal Jew, very tall and gaunt, hauled along a small fat woman of his race" | 26 |
| 6. | "One of the young ladies was being tossed up in a blanket with a young Irish lad" (p. 25) | 30 |
| 7. | (a) English | 36 |
| | (b) Russians—Fedya, Satiron, Alexy, Yoosha, Karl, Maxim Holost | 36 |
| 8. | Dainty Swedish girls and their partners looking over the sea | 44 |
| 9. | Apple orchards in blossom on the spurs of the Catskills | 84 |
| 10. | On the way to school: my breakfast party | 92 |
| 11. | The tramp's dressing-room | 110 |
| 12. | By the side of the highway to Michigan: the electric freight train | 120 |
| 13. | An Indiana farm: the wind-well behind it, the wheatfield in front | 142 |
| 14. | "The cream-vans come along and buy up all the cream" (p. 261) | 152 |
| 15. | "Ploughed upland all dotted over with white heaps of fertiliser" (p. 161) | 158 |
| 16. | "Slovaks working on the line with pick and shovel" | 166 |
| 17. | The Slav children of Snow-Shoe Creek | 174 |
| 18. | Italians working with the "mixer" on the Meadville Pike | 200 |
| 19. | Ingenious photographs of American types | 212 |
| 20. | The Lithuanian who sat behind the asphalt and coal-oil scatterer | 226 |
| 21. | "Johnny Kishman, a German boy, got off his bicycle to find out what manner of man I was" (p. 233) | 234 |
| 22. | Erie Shore. "Amidst old logs, under a stooping willow tree, I made my bed" (p. 235) | 238 |
| 23. | The sower | 252 |
| 24. | The store on wheels | 258 |
| 25. | "I had an interesting talk with an ancient man by the side of the road" | 262 |
| 26. | "Old Samuel Judie, lying on a bank, and philosophising on life" | 270 |
| 27. | At the fountain in the park: a hot day in Chicago | 276 |
