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Primary Sources

Immigration to the United States, 1789 to 1930
Historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.

Immigration History Research Center
The IHRCA's general collection consists of photographs, published materials, serials and newspapers, and individual archival collections of personal papers
and organizational records that document a variety of immigrant experiences in the United States.

Digitized Immigration Letters
From the Immigration History Research Center, This project aims to make available on-line digitized letters from the IHRC Archives and other collections (private individuals, partner institutions) that were written between 1850 and 1970 both by immigrants (the so-called “America letters”) and to immigrants (“homeland letters”). 

Foundational Collection of Immigration Oral Histories
Audio files from the Media Archives of the University of Minnesota