Coming to America

Book describing Texas and the United States for people interested in emigrating from Germany. viii, 256 p. 19 cm.

This is a telegram sent by John J. S. Rogers, Commissioner of Immigration at the Philadelphia Field Office, informing Josef Nowak of the arrival of Tensia Bielska and child.

This item is the identification paper of Chet Idee, a 4 year old acrobat, who appeared at the Chinese Village exhibition at the National Export Exposition in 1899 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The pu…

Immigrants stand in groups beside piles of luggage on a broad, tree-lined sidewalk near the Battery in New York City. Some of the immigrants appear to be making travel arrangements with drivers of wag…

In this letter, Mathilde Wichmann, former Immigrant Inspector, explains the work undertaken by female boarding inspectors at Ellis Island.

Photo of an Italian family ready to emigrate, Calabria, Italy, 1913

Folder: S.F. Islands-Angel-1920's. Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions.

This document is a menu for the Immigrant Dining Room on Ellis Island.

The official passport and documentation of Take Ishibashi written in English, French, and Japanese also includes her photograph, the date in which she saw this document in Kobe, Japan, and when she wa…

View of immigrants, mostly women and children, on the deck of a steamship waiting to disembark at Ellis Island. Most of the women and girls wear headscarves and sit on the floor. A few men stand in th…

A 'check' to be submitted once the shop has passed quarantine, upon arrival in the United States. This check was issued to Miye Washimura on her trip from Kobe, Japan to Los Angeles. However, Miye Was…

This item is the Declaration of Intention for United States citizenship filed by Igor Stravinsky. The declaration lists Mr. Stravinsky's name, address, dates of birth and immigration, place of birth,…

Signed in medium, bottom left corner: H. Sugimoto; poem written in Japanese on upper right of painting, translated: A man with ambition leaves his village; / Unless he accomplishes his mission, / He w…

Bunrath Ouer

This picture shows a typical immigration/resettlement processing scene.

A woman is looking at departure lists to the left of flight boarding instructions to the United States.

Booklet discussing the history of the Blomstrom family from their time in Sweden to their arrival in America. It includes photographs and illustrations of the family, as well as the coat of arms for L…