Immigration 1870-1930

By Christine Brendel Scriabine

In the years after 1870, America's cultural mosaic was enlarged & enriched by a great tide of new immigrants, who were often Catholic, Eastern Orthodox or Jewish & primarily peasants rather than artisans or workers. These new immigrants were drawn to America's booming cities by the availability of unskilled jobs. Most new immigrants led lives of heavy & unremitting toil & lived in abysmal conditions, but they were able to build rich cultural communities, churches & synagogues, & create homes that allowed their children to become middle class Americans. While some Americans, such as factory owners, welcomed the new immigrants, many feared that they were stealing American jobs, & destroying American civilization. This portfolio & its Broadsheets tell this saga through narrative, letters, documents, cartoons, music & photos. Seven Broadsheets Essays * Immigration in the Industrial Age * Northern Europeans - The Continuing Stream * Asians: The Chinese * Asians: The Japanese * Italians & Mediterranean Peoples * Eastern Europeans * Jewish Immigration Immigration Timeline: 1860-1930 Fourteen Historical Documents * "Tariff of Immigration Fares" folder, Philadelphia, 1887. * American Citizen Certificate for Russian, Aaron Rubin, 1896. * "Ellis Island" photo poster - scenes from 1900-1914. * Minutes of Ellis Island deportation inquiry, 1903. * Questionnaire requiring racial, political information, 1905. * "Chances for Homemakers" railway promotion, 1906. * Letter to President Roosevelt on shameful treatment of immigrants at Ellis Island, 1906. * Passport: bureaucratic immigration process in Europe, 1907. * Identification certificate - attempt to bypass exclusion laws. * Telegram urging "cheap Chinese labor" be excluded, 1911. * Ship's passenger manifest lists actor Charles Chaplin, 1912 * U.S. Census questionnaire, 1920 * Poster of selected photos & cartoons on immigrant life. * "What Every Immigrant Should Know" booklet, 1922.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566960827
• ISBN13: 9781566960823
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Jackdaw Publications