1960 Press Photo Greek woman immigrant with airport U.S. Custom workers

With a smile of pure delight, the grey-haired woman in the center waits as two U.S. customs workers examine her baggage on arrival at New York's Idlewild Airport. The woman is an immigrant from Greece and like mos tof today's newcomers has arrived in style via an airplane.Today's immigrants are better dressed, better educated and financially better off than those who came here in the great waves at the turn of the century.

Photo is dated 1960.

Photo measures 9 x 7.25 inches.