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Immigration Photographs
 Websites presented in alphabetical order "People of a Thousand Towns": The Online Catalog of Photographs of Jewish Life in Prewar Eastern Europe 
 This collection of 17,000 photographs from the YIVO archives is a visual record of pre-World War II Jewish communities. In some cases, the pictures are all that remains. Online albums document holiday observance, Yiddish writers, immigration, women's roles, and formal studio portraits. Users must register to search the full catalog. http://yivo1000towns.cjh.org/ Topics: History, Holidays & Observances, Judaism, Photograph Collections: History, Society & Social Science Last updated Feb 5, 2003 The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
A collection of about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials illustrating "nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California." Includes original illustrations, cartoons, letters, diary excerpts, speeches, sheet music, and other images and printed matter. Search or browse the material by subject, name, title, group, or theme. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml/cichome.html Topics: California: History, Correspondence, History, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Social Issues Last updated Jul 15, 2006 Cultural Profiles Project
Intended as a guide to aid in cultural awareness of new immigrants to Canada, this is a resource for learning about the "life and customs" of countries worldwide. Provides information on work, food, holidays, family life, spirituality, communication, education, sports and recreation, landscape and climate, history, health care, and the arts and literature of dozens of countries. Also available in French. From Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC). http://www.cp-pc.ca/ Topics: Holidays & Observances, Holidays by Region, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Photograph Collections: Regional Last updated Nov 19, 2005 Documenting the Southeast Asian Refugee Experience
An exhibit of over 80 annotated archival objects documenting "the resettlement experiences of refugees and immigrants from the former Indochina [in the United States and worldwide], with a special focus on materials pertaining to the large communities established in Orange County and California" during the mid-1970s through the 1990s. Contains photographs, maps, letters, and other items. Includes introduction and background information. From the Southeast Asian Archive, University of California, Irvine. http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/sea/seaexhibit/ Topics: Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional, Regions of the World, Regions of the World, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Aug 9, 2003 Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California, 1899-1965
An illustrated history of early Indian immigrants to California (primarily Sikhs from Punjab), featuring photographs, documents, and publications. Explores the passage to America, work, prejudice, the Gadar Party, the Stockton Sikh Temple, students, the exclusion of women, the Thind Decision (1923), the Luce-Cellar Act (1946), Congressman Dalip Singh Saund, and the Immigration and Nationality Act (1965). From the South/Southeast Asia Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/echoes.html Topics: California: History, Emigration & Immigration, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Aug 9, 2003 Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories
This site presents a virtual tour of the Oakland Museum of California's Gold Rush exhibition, including sections on art, natives and immigrants, a quiz, and curriculum materials for educators. The exhibit includes photographs, artifacts, primary documents, audio files (some in Chinese), and maps. http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/ Topics: California: History, History, K-12 Education, Photograph Collections: History, United States History Last updated Dec 27, 2005 The Golden Door: Immigration Images From the Keystone-Mast Collection
A collection of nearly 70 photographs concerning turn of the 20th century immigration to the United States. Topics include Ellis Island, immigrant life and labor, and World's Fair "foreign villages" (mostly taken in St. Louis, Missouri). From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/collections/permanent/projects/stereo/immigration/default.html Topics: Emigration & Immigration, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Jun 12, 2006 Hmong Center: Multicultural Resources and Education
"The work of the Hmong Resource Center [in Minnesota] is to provide information to Hmong and non-Hmong for the purpose of promoting positive race relations, human rights, multicultural education, information about cross-cultural health and medicine, teacher education, family literacy education and community-based research." The site features resources for Hmong immigrants, a bulletin board, newsletters, a photo gallery, biographies of notable Hmong individuals, a bibliography of Hmong materials back to 1778, and more. Searchable. http://www.hmongcenter.org/ Topics: Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Social Issues, Society & Social Science Last updated Apr 6, 2004 Introduction to an Exhibit of Photographs of Jane Addams, Her Family, and Hull-House
Brief biographical information, a bibliography, a description of the Jane Addams Collection, and photos of the Nobel Prize winner and "Mother of the World" who "championed the protection of immigrants, child labor laws and recreation facilities for children, industrial safety, juvenile courts, recognition of labor unions, woman suffrage, and world peace." By archivist Anne Yoder, Swarthmore College Peace Collection. http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/Exhibits/janeaddams/addamsindex.htm Topics: Labor, Military, Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Religion Last updated May 22, 2008 Jewish Women's Archive (JWA)
The JWA aims "to uncover, chronicle, and transmit the rich legacy of Jewish women." "Discover" profiles Jewish women, past and present, in online exhibits; "Teach" provides primary sources and lesson plans by type (cartoons, films, letters, photographs, speeches), time period (1800-1849, 1850-1899, 1900-1949, 1950-2000), and topic (anti-Semitism, immigration, philanthropy); and "Research" has a searchable archive of information on "hundreds of women, women's organizations, and manuscript collections." Includes links to related Web sites and resources. http://jwa.org/ Topics: Judaism, Lesson Plans, Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Nov 6, 2007 Photographs and Historical Documents Relating to the South Asian Diaspora
A small collection of photographs (including Sikhs of the Sacramento Valley), images of Gadar publications from California (1916 through 1929), and other ephemera. From the South/Southeast Asia Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/photos.html Topics: California: History, History, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Aug 15, 2003 Photographs of Agricultural Laborers in California, ca. 1906-1911
Ethnic groups in this collection include Japanese farm laborers; urban Chinese; and Mexican, Italian, and East Indian workers and communities. The rural and urban locations include Fresno, Gilroy, Los Angeles, Merced, Palo Alto, Ryde, San Francisco, the San Joaquin River area, San Jose, the Stockton area, Visalia, and Woodland. Searchable and browsable. From the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. A part of the Online Archive of California (OAC). http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf200007qw Topics: Agriculture, California: History, History, Labor, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, United States History Last updated Nov 6, 2009 Separate Lives, Broken Dreams: Saga of Chinese Immigration
A site about the Chinese Exclusion Act, which until its repeal in 1943 "barred all Chinese from U.S. citizenship by naturalization." Features immigration documents and photographs, Chinese exclusion literature such as speeches and satirical cartoons, a glossary of terms, links to related resources, and more. From the Center for Asian American Media. http://www.asianamericanmedia.org/separatelivesbrokendreams/ Topics: Photograph Collections: History, Social Issues Last updated Aug 22, 2007 Slavonic Web
This site is for the Slavonic Cultural Center, which traces its roots back to "the Slavonic Mutual and Benevolent Society [which] was founded in San Francisco in 1857 by Slavic immigrants, primarily from the region of present day Croatia." The site features a virtual museum of historical photos and paintings, selections from oral histories, and audio clips of Slavonic music (such as music played on the tamburitza). http://www.slavonicweb.org Topics: Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Feb 19, 2005 The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.
Contains passenger lists compiled from "1892 to 1924, [when] more than 22 million immigrants, passengers, and crew members came through Ellis Island and the Port of New York." Searchable by passenger name. Most entries provide residence, and age and date of arrival. Registration (free) required to view marital status, ship of travel, point of departure, facsimile of ship manifest, and photograph of ship. Includes a timeline "showing forces behind immigration and their impact on the immigrant experience." http://www.ellisisland.org/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Aug 23, 2004 Tenement Museum
New York's Lower East Side Tenement Museum is the first in the United States to preserve a tenement building. Between the years 1870 and 1915, 97 Orchard Street was home to over ten thousand people, mostly new immigrants. The site includes a history of the building, dioramas of individual rooms, photographs by Arnold Eagle, and the opportunity to peel away thirteen layers of wallpaper from just one wall. Public television station WNET has done a masterful job of creating a Web tour of this stunning re-creation of tenement life. http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/ Topics: Museums by Place: United States, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Jan 10, 2003 Territorial Kansas Online, 1854-1861
"Explore the turbulent times of 'Bleeding Kansas.' Hundreds of personal letters, diaries, photos, and maps bring to life the settling of Kansas during the fierce debate over slavery." Features topics such as territorial politics, border warfare, immigration, and biographies of historical figures. Document archives are accompanied by a timeline, bibliography, lesson plans, images of "The Annals of Kansas," and related links. Browsable and searchable. From the Kansas State Historical Society and the University of Kansas. http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/ Topics: Black Resources, Correspondence, History, Labor, Lesson Plans, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Nov 2, 2005 Trabajadores Inmigrantes/ Immigrant Workers
An exhibit of over 30 photographs of Latino immigrant workers on strike in the United States, taken by David Bacon. Includes commentary from Bacon, and background information on the photographer. From the Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley. http://www.clas.berkeley.edu:7001/Gallery/dbacon/ Topics: Activism, Labor, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Aug 24, 2003 Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869
A collection of "49 diaries, in 59 volumes, of pioneers trekking westward across America to Utah, Montana, and the Pacific between 1847 and the meeting of the rails in 1869. In addition to the diaries, the collection includes 43 maps, 82 photographs and illustrations, and 7 published guides for immigrants." From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/upbhtml/ Topics: Christianity, History, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, United States History Last updated Oct 8, 2002 Who Do You Think You Are? An Introduction to Immigration History in Indiana
Emphasizing the 19th and early 20th centuries, this site features essays, a timeline (1800-1950), maps, photographs, digitized documents (passports, greencards, visas), interviews, demographical information, a glossary, and lesson plans for teachers. From the Indiana Historical History. http://www.indianahistory.org/programming/immigration/ Topics: Emigration & Immigration, Lesson Plans, Photograph Collections: History, U.S. History By Place Last updated Oct 9, 2002 Worklore: Brooklyn Workers Speak
This site "explores the work lives of Brooklynites as they made, and continue to make, their living in the borough. Using photographs and personal quotes, this online exhibition compares the experience of working in the past to doing so today." The site addresses the themes of racial bias, women's changing work roles, immigrants, and unemployment. Includes a game, classroom materials, a bibliography, and links. A project of The Brooklyn Historical Society and Brooklyn Public Library. http://www.worklore.net/ Topics: Labor, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Apr 28, 2004 Yiddish Radio Project
This is the site of an NPR documentary about the golden age of Yiddish radio (1930-1950), which depicted the daily life of Eastern European Jewish immigrants in their new homeland. The dramas, political commentary, advice shows, talent shows, and music provided entertainment and comfort. The site has photos of radio personalities, sound clips, a documentary, and an explanation of the work of Henry Sapoznik, who found and restored the disks with the programs. http://yiddishradioproject.org/ Topics: Internet, Judaism, Languages, Media, Music, Musical Genres, Photograph Collections: History, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Nov 30, 2002 |
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