Transcript of Political Statement Concerning Immigration to Mexico, December 1831
View Full Item in The Dolph Briscoe Center for American HistoryCopy of transcript for political statement concerning European immigration to Mexico. The statement describes the terms of immigration (amount of land offered per person and per family, the requiremen…
The cabin book or sketches of life in Texas, 1844
Sealsfield, Charles, 1793-1864, Mersch, Ch. FrView Full Item in UT San Antonio Libraries Special CollectionsThis is an English translation of the German text, which is a historical novel about the creation of the Republic of Texas. It consists of a series of sketches that depict the new Republic of Texas as…
Answer to the lament of the Irish emigrant
B.W. Thayer & CoView Full Item in Boston Public LibraryTitle from item, from additional material accompanying item, or from information provided by the Boston Public Library. Music title page is part of sheet music for Answer to the Lament of the Irish Em…
Manuscript Map and Deed, German Emigration Company to F. T. Arnold
Adelsverein (Verein zum Schütze deutscher Einwanderer in Texas)View Full Item in University of Texas at Arlington LibraryManuscript Map and Deed, German Emigration Company to F. T. Arnold in Comal County. Signed by the Chief Surveyor, H. Wilke, Th. Herzing, and ?, a Trustee of the German Emigration Colony. Has Adelsvere…
Article on the settlement of Texas by German immigrants (in German)
View Full Item in The Dolph Briscoe Center for American HistoryNewspaper clipping regarding the settlement in Texas. First portion (front side) is signed by W. D'Hanis & Co. and dated March 1846 from Antwerp. Second portion (front side) mentions Haby's return to…
List of emigrants going from Antwerp to Galveston, January 21 and April 1, 1846
D'Hanis, GuillaumeView Full Item in The Dolph Briscoe Center for American HistoryList of emigrants going from Antwerp to Galveston. Signed Guillaume D'Hanis and dated January 21 and April 1, 1846 in Antwerp. "Ledger of the emigrants embarked this day on the ship "Diamond". [2] p.…
Memoir by a Swiss immigration entitled Pioneering in the Wisconsin Lead Region
Rodolf, Theodore, 1815-1892View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyTheodore Rodolf came to Wisconsin from Switzerland in 1834, settling in the lead country of Lafayette County. Drawn to the area because of its rising economic importance, Rodolf met many prominent Wis…
Emigrant train of gold hunters, 1849
[Unknown]View Full Item in UC Berkeley, Bancroft LibraryLong packtrain of miners, wagons, and oxen crossing mountain pass; overturned wagon and dead horse in foreground; abandoned wagons along road. Printed title (LC). From periodical?
Mormon immigrants departing from Liverpool
View Full Item in Brigham Young University - Harold B. Lee LibraryREL C 342 CES Slide Set H-31 Mormon emigrants boarding a vessel in Liverpool, England.
Letter to the Governor of Wisconsin on immigrant transportation, 1853
Wisconsin Commissioner of EmigrationView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietySoon after Wisconsin became a state, the legislature established a Commission of Emigration to actively encourage the settlement of European immigrants. In this 1853 report to the governor, a member o…
Map of immigration from Europe to the United States, 1853
Zimmermann, GotthelfView Full Item in University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeIncludes text and illustrations Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Color not given.
Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley
Piercy, Frederick Hawkins, 1830-1891, Linforth, James, 1827-1899View Full Item in Brigham Young University - Harold B. Lee LibraryPrint ed. also available in the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo UT 84602 Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley : illustrated with steel engravings and wood cuts from sk…
Emigrant arrival at Constitution Wharf, Boston
Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910View Full Item in Boston Public LibrarySigned lower center (on trunk): Homer. Signed lower right: Damoreau. Foster number: 145 Published in: Ballou's Pictorial, Volume XIII, 31 October 1857, p. 273. Foster, Allen Evarts, "A Check List of I…
Polish people of Portage County
Sanford, Albert HartView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyPortage County was home to one of the first large Polish communities in the United States. This article looks at Polish settlement in the county, describing some of the earliest immigrants and their a…
The Farmers and Emigrants Complete Guide
Marshall, Josiah TView Full Item in University of California Libraries (archive.org)Portrait of German immigrant William A. Eichbaum
View Full Item in Nashville Public LibraryA carte-de-visite studio portrait of William A. Eichbaum. Eichbaum was born in 1787 in Dublin, Ireland, the son of German immigrants. He immigrated to the United States around 1820, and came to Nashvi…
German language novel on the life of Spanish immigrants
Hoermann, Alto S. (Alto Sebastian), 1829-1867View Full Item in UT San Antonio Libraries Special CollectionsThis German text is a work of fiction that paints a historical picture of life in Spanish Texas. The protagonist is a young Spanish immigrant, Don Hesu Navarro, who befriends Tehuan and his family. Th…
Chinese man working on the Union Pacific Railroad
E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm), creatorView Full Item in UC Berkeley, Bancroft LibrarySeveral Chinese workers on a railroad hand car in an arid landscape.
Chinese Railroad Workers
View Full Item in California State University, ChicoChinese likely working on the Transcontinental Railroad across the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Chinese laborers working near entrance to Summit Tunnel. DCB
