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Background imageImmigrant Collection: A view of Pennyfields, Chinatown, London, 20th century

A view of Pennyfields, Chinatown, London, 20th century. A Chinese community began to become established in Limehouse on the banks of the Thames in East London in the late 18th century

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Bruno Zirato, Caruso & wife, Mrs. J. S. Keith, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service

Bruno Zirato, Caruso & wife, Mrs. J. S. Keith, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Bruno Zirato, Caruso & wife, Mrs. J. S. Keith, between c1915 and c1920.

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Récompense honnête, décernée...à Louis-Philippe, 1835. Creator: Honore Daumier

Récompense honnête, décernée...à Louis-Philippe, 1835. Creator: Honore Daumier
Recompense honnete, decernee...a Louis-Philippe, 1835. Recompense honnete, decernee, en 1800, a Louis-Philippe d'Orleans

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Italian at Ellis Island. Creator: Lewis Wickes Hine

Italian at Ellis Island. Creator: Lewis Wickes Hine
Italian at Ellis Island

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes... 1915

Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes... 1915
Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes, portrait photograph, 1915 Mar. 13

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes... 1915

Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes... 1915
Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes, portrait photograph, 1915 Mar. 13

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes... 1915

Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes... 1915
Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes, portrait photograph, 1915 Mar. 13

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes... 1915

Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes... 1915
Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes, portrait photograph, 1915 Mar. 13

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes... 1915

Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes... 1915
Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes, portrait photograph, 1915 Mar. 13

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes... 1915

Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes... 1915
Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes, portrait photograph, 1915 Mar. 13

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes... 1915

Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes... 1915
Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes, portrait photograph, 1915 Mar. 13

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes... 1915

Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes... 1915
Members of the International Institute for Immigrant Girls, Y.W.C.A. in national costumes, portrait photograph, 1915 Mar. 13

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Aspects imprevus de la campage Francaise: les indo-chinois aux champs, 1916. Creator: Unknown

Aspects imprevus de la campage Francaise: les indo-chinois aux champs, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Aspects imprevus de la campage Francaise: les indo-chinois aux champs; La moisson du mais-fourrage, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Aspects imprevus de la campage Francaise: les indo-chinois aux champs, 1916. Creator: Unknown

Aspects imprevus de la campage Francaise: les indo-chinois aux champs, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Aspects imprevus de la campage Francaise: les indo-chinois aux champs; L'arrachage mecanique des pommes de terre, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Street scene, possibly in Chinatown, San Francisco, between 1896 and 1942. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Street scene, possibly in Chinatown, San Francisco, between 1896 and 1942. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Street scene, possibly in Chinatown, San Francisco, between 1896 and 1942

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Caltilda Downes: Barbados Passport, 1917. Creator: Unknown

Caltilda Downes: Barbados Passport, 1917. Creator: Unknown
Caltilda Downes: Barbados Passport, 1917. Stamped by the British Consulate General in Panama

Background imageImmigrant Collection: America First poster, between 1911 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing

America First poster, between 1911 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. America First poster, between 1911 and 1920
America First poster, between 1911 and 1920. Uncle Sam shaking a European immigrant by the hand, with text in multiple languages including Italian, Polish, Hebrew, Czech

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Group of emigrants (women and children) from eastern Europe on deck of the S.S. Amsterdam, 1899

Group of emigrants (women and children) from eastern Europe on deck of the S.S. Amsterdam, 1899

Background imageImmigrant Collection: The Pilgrim Fathers Leaving England, (1902). Creator: C. Howard

The Pilgrim Fathers Leaving England, (1902). Creator: C. Howard
The Pilgrim Fathers Leaving England, (1902). English puritans on their way to north America. Quakers on board the Mayflower landed in 1620

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch, desert agriculture, Imperial Valley, CA, 1937

Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch, desert agriculture, Imperial Valley, CA, 1937
Desert agriculture. Brushed chili field. Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch. Imperial Valley, California

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch, desert agriculture, Imperial Valley, CA, 1937

Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch, desert agriculture, Imperial Valley, CA, 1937
Desert agriculture. Brushed chili field. Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch. Imperial Valley, California

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch, desert agriculture, Imperial Valley, CA, 1937

Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch, desert agriculture, Imperial Valley, CA, 1937
Desert agriculture. Brushed chili field. Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch. Imperial Valley, California

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Migrants, family of Mexicans, on road with tire trouble, looking for work...California, 1936

Migrants, family of Mexicans, on road with tire trouble, looking for work...California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrants, family of Mexicans, on road with tire trouble. Looking for work in the peas. California

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Migrants, family of Mexicans, on road with tire trouble, looking for work... CA, 1936

Migrants, family of Mexicans, on road with tire trouble, looking for work... CA, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrants, family of Mexicans, on road with tire trouble. Looking for work in the peas. California

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese relocation, California. Members of the Shibuya family are pictured at home before evacuation. The father and the mother were born in Japan and came to this country in 1904

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Mexican children playing in ditch, near Corcoran, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Mexican children playing in ditch, near Corcoran, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican children playing in ditch which runs through company cotton camp near Corcoran, California

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Bushing It - Camped for the Night, 1850. Creator: Unknown

Bushing It - Camped for the Night, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Bushing It - Camped for the Night, 1850. British settlers in Australia....the Settlers Bushing it, and camped for the night, having wearied themselves with the chase of the kangaroo

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Driving Horses to the Stock-Yard, 1850. Creator: Unknown

Driving Horses to the Stock-Yard, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Driving Horses to the Stock-Yard, 1850. British settlers in Australia. The horses are hardy, and perform long, nay surprising journeys, during which they are not supplied with any provender

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Mexican migratory laborer thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants, Imperial Valley, California, 1937

Mexican migratory laborer thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants, Imperial Valley, California, 1937
One of a Mexican gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants at thirty cents an hour; the young plants are capped with wax paper spread over a wire wicket to protect against

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Great Riot at the Astor Place, n.d. Creator: Nathaniel Currier

Great Riot at the Astor Place, n.d. Creator: Nathaniel Currier
Great Riot at the Astor Place, n.d

Background imageImmigrant Collection: The kind of work drought refugees and Mexicans do in the Imperial Valley, California, 1937

The kind of work drought refugees and Mexicans do in the Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The kind of work drought refugees and Mexicans do in the Imperial Valley, California. Planting cantaloupe

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Housing, within five minutes walk of City Hall, City of Los Angeles, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Housing, within five minutes walk of City Hall, City of Los Angeles, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Housing. Los Angeles. Within five minutes walk of City Hall. Rent eight dollars to twelve dollars monthly

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, one quarter mile from City Hall, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, one quarter mile from City Hall, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from City Hall. Area has been condemned and will be torn down shortly to make space for the new Union Railroad station. Average rent is eight dollars

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, California. Average rental is eight dollars. Some houses have plumbing

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, California. Average rental eight dollars. Some houses have plumbing

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, one quarter mile from City Hall, California, 1936

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, one quarter mile from City Hall, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from City Hall. Areas have been condemned and will be torn down shortly to make space for the new Union Railroad station

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Mexican townfolk sacking peppers near Stockton, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Mexican townfolk sacking peppers near Stockton, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican townfolk sacking peppers near Stockton, California

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, one quarter mile from City Hall, California, 1936

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, one quarter mile from City Hall, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from the City Hall. California

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, one quarter mile from City Hall, California, 1936

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, one quarter mile from City Hall, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from City Hall, California

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Off for the melon fields (Mexican labor), 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Off for the melon fields (Mexican labor), 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Off for the melon fields (Mexican labor). Imperial Valley, California

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Mexican field worker, father of six, Imperial Valley, Riverside County, California, 1935

Mexican field worker, father of six, Imperial Valley, Riverside County, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican field worker, father of six. Imperial Valley, Riverside County, California

Background imageImmigrant Collection: 95 year old who came to Utah from Denmark as a Mormon convert when a boy, Escalante, Utah, 1936

95 year old who came to Utah from Denmark as a Mormon convert when a boy, Escalante, Utah, 1936
Came to Utah from Denmark as a Mormon convert when a boy. Now ninety-five years old. Escalante, Utah

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, California. Average rental is eight dollars. Some houses have plumbing

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Mexican cotton picker, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Mexican cotton picker, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Mexicans bound for the Imperial Valley to harvest peas, near Bakersfield, California, 1936

Mexicans bound for the Imperial Valley to harvest peas, near Bakersfield, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexicans bound for the Imperial Valley to harvest peas. Near Bakersfield, California

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Mexican townfolk sacking peppers near Stockton, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Mexican townfolk sacking peppers near Stockton, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican townfolk sacking peppers near Stockton, California

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Mexican field hand, New Mexico, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Mexican field hand, New Mexico, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican field hand. New Mexico

Background imageImmigrant Collection: Mexican cantaloupe worker at 5:00 am, Imperial Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Mexican cantaloupe worker at 5:00 am, Imperial Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican cantaloupe worker at 5:00 a.m. Imperial Valley, California



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