Owen Owen inquires about the process of moving to America. He asks Benjamin Franklin whether he needs to petition Congress to settle in the United States.; American Philosophical Society
First page of a handwritten letter addressed to Mrs. Harriman and written at Cold Spring Harbor, August 21, 1910. Concerns office furnishings and the need for immigration officials to better detect "mental defectives."; Series I.
13% of the total population of the US is made of immigrants. Portes discusses the reality of immigration in the US. He debunks ideas that all immigrants are uneducated and poor.
A manuscript essay by Lewis Evans on German immigration that details the often brutal experience of immigrants' journey to Pennsylvania and proposes a series of reforms.
A manuscript essay by Lewis Evans on German immigration that details the often brutal experience of immigrants' journey to Pennsylvania and proposes a series of reforms.
Correspondence between Florence Barbara Seibert and Eva Soto Figueroa Leake. The first letters concern Leake's plans to travel from Mexico to the United States to study with Seibert, particularly her difficulties securing a fellowship, while the latter part of the correspondence. Later letters focus on Leake's career, her research on tuberculin, and Seibert's cancer research.
Letter from Elkana Watson to William Temple Franklin. Sends bill of articles of dress purchased for him. Comments on the rush of emigrants to America from Great Britain and Ireland.; American Philosophical Society
