Pamphlet on the anti-Catholic movement in the U.S., 1855
Hutchinson, EView Full ItemAn anti-Catholic tract concerning the perceived influence of civil and ecclesiastical tyrrany. Catholic pamphlet. Rare.
Immigration: Its Evils and Consequences, 1856
Busey, Samuel C. (Samuel Clagett), 1828-1901View Full Item in Harvard UniversityAnti-Chinese riots in Seattle as illustrated in West Shore, March 1886
View Full Item in University of WashingtonRacism; Immigrants; Original art;
Book titled The Immigration Problem about the social and economic challeges posed by immigration, 1892
Sampson, Zabdiel Sidney, 1842-1897View Full Item in Cornell UniversityAt head of title: Man and the state; studies in applied sociology.
Some reasons for Chinese exclusion, 1901
American Federation of Labor, authorView Full Item in UC Berkeley, Bancroft LibraryLetter from Prescott Hall of the Immigration Restriction League to Frank P. Sargent, Commissioner General of Immigration Regarding Literacy Test for Immigrants
Department of Justice. Immigration and Naturalization Service. 6/14/1940-3/1/2003View Full Item in National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual ReferencePoster demanding the public to only patronize white-owned businesses, 1908
Anti-Jap Laundry League, AuthorView Full Item in UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research LibraryCampaign Committee of Asiatic Exclusion League of California
Negrich, Thomas G, AuthorView Full Item in UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research LibraryFlier formatted as an open letter, to call attention to the legislative records of two California assemblymen
Letter from the St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly to President William Howard Taft on immigration restrictions
Department of Justice. Immigration and Naturalization Service. 6/14/1940-3/1/2003View Full Item in National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual ReferenceThis letter asked President William Howard Taft to restrict immigration laws so that "undesirable foreign labor" would be kept out of the United States.
Pre-Addressed Postcards to be Mailed to the President Advocating Stricter Immigration Laws, 1911
Department of Justice. Immigration and Naturalization Service. 6/14/1940-3/1/2003View Full Item in National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual ReferenceThese postcards were pre-addressed to the President, so that supporters only had to fill in their name and address. The message urges strict immigration laws against the "foreign hordes."
Resolution by the Boise Trades and Labor Council on immigration, 1912
Department of Justice. Immigration and Naturalization Service. 6/14/1940-3/1/2003View Full Item in National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual ReferenceThis document urged the Idaho State legislature to pass restrictive immigration laws which would limit the perceived negative influence of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, as well as Asia.
Proceedings of the Asiatic Exclusion League, 1913
Asiatic Exclusion LeagueView Full Item in University of CaliforniaIssues for Aug. and Nov. 1910 and Jan. 1912 not published. Includes proceedings of the <3rd, 5th-6th> annual meeting. 1905-1907 issued by the League under its earlier name: Japanese and Korean Exclusi…
Resolution on immigration literacy tests, 1914
University of IowaView Full Item in Indiana UniversityGreat Northern Land Company letter to Senator Miles Poindexter regarding anarchist organizations among immigrants, November 29, 1919
Leigh, Walter EView Full Item in University of WashingtonWalter E. Leigh, Manager of the Great Northern Land Company, writes to Senator Miles Poindexter to share his views on anarchy in the United States. Leigh writes that he supports Poindexter's anti-anar…
Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor who began a new career in Europe following anti-Japanese sentiment in the 1920s
Hixon-Wiese, Kansas City, MOView Full Item in University of WashingtonSessue Hayakawa (1889-1973) achieved fame as a silent film star through his role in Cecil B. DeMille's controversial 1915 film The Cheat, which told the story of a white woman's passionate affair with…
Letter from Women of the Ku Klux Klan to President Calvin Coolidge on immigration restrictions
Department of Labor. 1913View Full Item in National Archives at College Park - Textual ReferenceThis letter from Alliance Klan #1 of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan is in favor of the Johnson Immigration Bill.
Hearings before the House of Representatives on deportation and eugenics, 1926-1928
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and NaturalizationView Full Item in University of Minnesota"Hearing No. 70.1.4."
Hearings on immigration and the exclusion and expulsion of Communists, 1932
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and NaturalizationView Full Item in University of MinnesotaNotice to Aliens of Enemy Nationalities, 1942
Department of Justice. Immigration and Naturalization Service. 6/14/1940-3/1/2003View Full Item in National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual ReferenceThis is a Department of Justice notice directed towards aliens of German, Italian, and Japanese nationality to apply for a Certificate of Identification.
Industrial facilities in Arizona restricted to Japanese immigrants and residents, 1943
29th Engineer Reproduction Plant: publisherView Full Item in California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special CollectionsMap shows five close views of industrial fascilities in Yuma County, the City of Yuma, and the City of Tuscon where Japanese Americans were prohibited or restricted. Fascilities include: dams, radio s…
Memoranda on policing German and Japanese aliens in Alaska, 1943
Western Defense Command and Fourth Army, Wartime Civil Control Administration, Alaska Travel Control Division: publisher, Hamilton, Jay W., Operations Officer: authorView Full Item in California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special CollectionsStaff Memoranda for the Alaska Travel Control Division of the Wartime Civil Control Administration. Topics include: how to address the Chiefs of Police, and procedure in handling naturalized citizens…
Indonesian men at the immigration detention facility in San Francisco waiting to be transported to the immigration detention facility in Crystal City, Texas
View Full Item in California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special CollectionsCaption found with the image reads, "After several weeks of action in the U.S. District Court, and an appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals and to the Supreme Court, an order was obtained for removal…
Proclamation on alien registration in Maine, 1950
Barrows, Lewis OView Full Item in Maine State ArchivesProclamation directing and requiring every subject or citizen of foreign counties to register.
Letter to a Dallas newspaper, detailing the authorÛªs opposition to immigrant labor
Idar, Eduardo, JrView Full Item in Houston Metropolitan Research Center at Houston Public LibraryOnionskin carbon copy of press statement and telegram from Ed Idar, Jr., State Chairman, American GI Forum of Texas, to E. M. Dealey, Publisher of the Dallas Morning News, with handwritten date of 195…
Illustration of attempts to block the immigration of Japanese picture brides
Sugimoto, HenryView Full Item in Japanese American National MuseumSigned in medium, upper right corner: H. Sugimoto Stretched and framed. Formerly stapled to paintings 92.97.120-.124. Man in foreground in blue overalls sits at a table with his back to the viewer loo…
KKK March in San Antonio calling for the deportation of immigrants, 1983
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)View Full Item in UNT Libraries Special CollectionsVideo footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story by reporter Larry Butcher about a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) march in San Antonio, Texas where the group called for the c…
Dallas anti-immigrant protester with American flag
Castillo, José LView Full Item in UNT Libraries Special CollectionsA protester at a Dallas anti-immigration march holds an American flag. Around 500 people congregated on the outskirts of Dallas to protest against amnesty for undocumented immigrants. Led by the group…
Illustration satirizing U.S. policy on Latin American refugees, 2013
Y SingerView Full Item in St. Lawrence UniversitySt. Lawrence University: Street Art Graphics; This political cartoon illustrates the damage and social instability that intervention by the United States in Latin American politics and government has…
