Online collection of approximately 2,200 books and pamphlets as well
as 7,800 photographs, 200 maps and 9,600 pages from Harvard manuscript
and archival collections. Emphasis on 19th century materials. An
amazing resource!
K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, and Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner, eds. Detroit, Gale, 2006.
"Primary source documents focused on immigration and multiculturalism in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. International in scope." Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted access
Thomas A. Edison, Inc. 1903.
Film clip. "Shows a large open barge loaded with people of every
nationality, who have just arrived from Europe, disembarking at Ellis
Island, N.Y." Photographed July 9, 1903.
Report published in the leading social work journal of the day on a
1913 study by psychologists at the Training School in Vineland, N.J. who
spent two and a half
months at Ellis Island administering intelligence tests to immigrants
("35 Jews, 22 Hungarians, 50 Italians and 45 Russians"). The study
concluded that two out of every five immigrants studied
was feeblemined.
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