WORLD VIEW: During the 1800s improvements in medicine, sanitation, and food distribution helped lead to an increase in population. In the United States and Europe, population growth was fastest in the more industrialized regions. As population grew, it also became more mobile. Large numbers of people began to move across national boundaries and oceans to foreign lands.
PICTURE: This is an editorial cartoon by Ray Osrin of an ark marked "US" that is loading up many smaller boats. The cartoon is signed in the upper right corner "Osrin 1980 The Plain Dealer" and it is dated in the lower right corner "5/14." Established in 1842, The Cleveland Plain Dealer is one of the few organizations that has been a part of the Cleveland landscape for over 165 years.
