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museum — The museum also documents the behavior of Americans not-so-happy with the recent arrivals. How fucking insane is this pic?

museum — Don't worry, it's not racist or anything. the guy took off the hood and he was totally a Leni Lenape.

museum — It was teeny tiny, but still really interesting!

museum — After the rain had subsided, Meredith and I walked down into Chinatown to check out the MoCA Museum (Museum of Chinese in the Americas)

museum — Bingo! Pretty neat, right? So his name was Karol Miskovics (which was later anglicized to Miscovich).

museum — This is a photo of the (long-since defunct) synagogue on Rivington a few blocks from Meredith's apartment back in 1910 when it was the heart of the Jewish lower east side.

museum — Old school street signs from the Lower East Side.

museum — The rest of the museum documents the development and evolution of neighborhoods in New York as a result of mass immigration. A clamseller in what would eventually come to be known as Little Italy. Mulberry & Grand (circa 1890).

museum — Oh, wait. In Longbranch, New Jersey? Whaaaaaat?

museum — A full-on Ku Klux Klan march through a town. Oh, those wacky southerners!

museum — An entire African tribe that emigrated.

museum — A Romanian woman with pretty much the biggest baby I've ever seen. (Who sorta looks a bit like my friend Rachael, no?)

museum — This guy should've shaved that stash, put on a little rouge, folded up those hairy legs COMING OUT OF HIS ABDOMENT and hid them under a dress. He could've easily passed as a hirsute preggo chick.

museum — The Immigration Museum is pretty amazing. If you live in NYC, or are ever here visiting, I strongly recommend it. These next few pics are all from a few photographers who spent a lot of time photographing portraits of all the people who were either held aside at Ellis Island for being strange or different, or documenting people that had be rejected entry and were about to be deported.

museum — "Tattooed German stowaways deported May, 1911."

museum — Just some tall dude. No, biggie.

museum — Remember how on my trip to Thailand I was complaining about how loud the gecko in my room was? Well the museum likens the noise it makes to "the bark of a small dog." Hahah.

museum — Hahaha. Look at the model of the prehistoric crocodile! They've existed as a species (practically unchanged) for 90 million years! (Or at least that's what GOD wants all you SINNERS to believe! Everyone knows the planet's only like 6,000 years old, duh!)

museum — The Placoderms are my favoritest!!!

museum — Totally badass, huh?

museum — Afterwards, we went and checked out the awesome dinosaur fossils room. Despite the fact that I've been there tons of times, I'm always amazed at the lengths God went to to create these skeletons of creatures that never really existed and then buried them to test our faith. Man, God is AWESOME!

museum — ...that has hundreds of real butterflies and moths flying around in it. This moth here must of had a wingspan of 10"! It was amazing!

museum — ...butterflies exhibit!

museum — On Wednesday Sarah and I went up to the Museum of Natural History to check out the new dinosaurs exhibit. But we ended up spending way more time checking out the...

museum — And then after you've finished looking at all of them, the exhibit hall leads to a huge room...

museum — The exhibit was crazy! They had literally hundreds of cases of these huge butterflies and moths.

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