Immigration Collection

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

Quarantined on Hoffman Isl'd, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Quarantined on Hoffman Isl'd, between c1910 and c1915.

Plague Ship, which carries suspects to Hoffman Island, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Plague Ship, which carries suspects to Hoffman Island, between c1910 and c1915 Hoffman Island, New York City, where immigrants with infectious diseases were held in quarantine before arriving at

Candidates for naturalization seated in room, hats in laps, 1916. Creator: Bain News Service
Candidates for naturalization seated in room, hats in laps, 1916.

Greeks departing on MADONNA, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Greeks departing on MADONNA, 1912. Photo taken when Greek immigrants left New York City to return to their country and fight in the first Balkan War, which began in October 1912.

On MARTHA WASHINGTON going to Balkan War, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
On MARTHA WASHINGTON going to Balkan War, 1912. Taken when Greek immigrants left New York City to return to their country and fight in the first Balkan War, which began in October 1912.

Ready to return for Balkan War, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Ready to return for Balkan War, 1912. Taken when Greek immigrants left New York City to return to their country and fight in the first Balkan War, which began in October 1912.

German Doctors at Ellis Island, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
German Doctors at Ellis Island, 1912.

Boarding the MADONNA, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Boarding the MADONNA, 1912. Taken when Greek immigrants left New York City to return to their country and fight in the first Balkan War, which began in October 1912.

Greeks boarding MADONNA, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Greeks boarding MADONNA, 1912. Taken when Greek immigrants left New York City to return to their country and fight in the first Balkan War, which began in October 1912.

Greeks boarding MADONNA, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Greeks boarding MADONNA, 1912. Taken when Greek immigrants left New York City to return to their country and fight in the first Balkan War, which began in October 1912.

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

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

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

Johan François Adriaan Cateau van Rosevelt... 1885. Creator: Lovera
Johan Francois Adriaan Cateau van Rosevelt, Chief of the Construction Department and Agent General of Immigration in Suriname, 1885

Inspection room, Ellis Island, New York, c.between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Unknown
Inspection room, Ellis Island, New York, c.between 1910 and 1920

Chinatown, in San Francisco or New York City, between 1911 and 1942. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Chinatown, in San Francisco or New York City, between 1911 and 1942. Signs: barber shop; Kwong Loy Yuen; Som Mun Co.; Dancing; Oriental

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dept. Of Labor - Sign On Door For Newly Created Office of Sec. of Labor, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Dept
Dept. Of Labor - Sign On Door For Newly Created Office of Secretary of Labor, 1913. Temporary sign pasted over Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization - Law Division

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

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

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

New York City views, between 1931 and 1938. Creator: Arnold Genthe
New York City views, between 1931 and 1938

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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