A piece of floor of the most famous immigrant control station in the U.S., Ellis Island, stood for the first steps of the immigrants in the New World. Medical devices represented the examinations the immigrant had to pass. Only those free of physical ailments were admitted to enter the country.

One example for the many options for a new start in the United States was the street-sign from Neu-Braunfels in honor of the bavarian surveyor Zink.
Erasers from the production of Faber New York and Blue Jeans of Levi Strauss referred to those emigrants who became successful entrepreneurs in America.
Cartoons of the Bavarian Emigrant Thomas Nast, father of world-famous "Santa Claus", represented all those contributions of bavarian artists, writers or journalists to the cultural life of their new homeland.