Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930

Provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. These full-text resources are publicly available via the World Wide Web and are fully searchable. This collection documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. Illustrated in the collection are salient themes of immigration to the U.S., including acculturation, nativism, racism and prejudice, homesteading, and industrialization. Governing policies are also documented. Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, the collection includes approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets as well as 6,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from manuscript and archival collections.