Through Ellis Island and Angel Island, 1870-1920

In 1862, Jewish settler Marcus Oppenheimer and his brother arrived by wagon train to settle on the Columbia River near the Canadian border (later in Stevens County). He platted the town and opened a s…

Towns and counties across Wisconsin sought to encourage settlement by extolling the virtues of their particular area. County Clerk Orville Brayton provides here a description of the natural resources…

The case file from which this document originates pertains to the arrest and trial of Francisco and Juan Rios and Antonio Solis for smuggling Chinese nationals across the US-Mexico border. Reports and…

This letter is a response from Commissioner of Immigration in San Francisco, California to the circular letter from the Acting Commissioner General of Immigration in Washington, DC regarding the issui…

Hard-bound volume containing topographical, mineral, agricultural, economic, and social conditions about the state of Tennessee in order to promote immigration into the state.

Watson Carvosso Squire, 1838-1926, was an attorney, Civil War veteran, industrialist, and governor of Washington Territory from 1884-1887. In 1885, anti-Chinese riots began occurring in Tacoma and Sea…

Tool chest used by cabinetmaker Julius Christison when he arrived in Seattle from Denmark in 1885. He worked in many early Seattle stores and workshops.

Sam Wing was a notable Chinese immigrant to Utah who ran an herbal drugstore in Mercur, Utah, and later on in Salt Lake City.

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This chair was made by a Norwegian immigrant to Seattle and it typifies Norwegian funiture styles of the late 19th century.

Portrait of Peter Guscetti - born in Switzerland 1836 and died in Chico 1903. Immigrated to SanFrancisco in 1856 met a women there and married her then moved to the Chico area. Lived at a ranch near B…

Photograph of Dr. Issac Adams as a young man. A native of Persia, educated in an American missionary college, he first facilitated Assyrian immigration to Canada and then near Turlock, California.

1907 patent black wax cylinder. Inscription on lid: "Mr Keillor"; inscription on box: "Mr Keillor." Place of recording likely the United States. Mr. Keillor. Male vocal solo, presumably by the "Mr Kei…

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Bibliography at end of chapters.

Chapters from the author's The Promised land.

Japanese baseball teams began organizing in Seattle in 1904. Seattle Asahi Club's baseball team was formed in 1912 by some players from the Mikado team, an early Issei (first generation immigrant) tea…

Photo of four Immigrant children, Midvale, Utah, 1915

Photo of several early members of the Utah Japanese Association, forerunner to the Japanese American Citizens' League (JACL), in 1915.

In 1890, German immigrant Edward Nordhoff and his wife Josephine invested their life savings of $1,200 to start The Bon Marche at First Avenue and Cedar Street. He modeled his new department store aft…

Typed on the letterhead of the Council of Jewish Women, New York, Department of Immigrant Aid.

1 negative : nitrate, b&w; 8 x 10 in.