A lot more than 500,000 Greeks — 90 percent males — emigrated to your United States between 1880 and 1920, producing a nightmare that is demographic their future as a residential area as a result of not enough ladies.
The era of the picture bride was born and thousands of young Greek women were sent to America, many only after having seen their prospective husbands in a photograph that was sent to the village from faraway America by a friend or relative attempting to make the connection, or from a marriage agency set up in the immigrant communities abroad as a result.