The Open Collections Program from Harvard features “Immigration to the United States”, a web-based collection of selected historical information and resources on immigration to the US from 1789-1930.
The collection includes information on immigration records from Harvard’s’ libraries, archives, and museums. According to the website, the historical records include “approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets as well as 6,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from manuscript and archival collections.”
There are diaries, biographies in addition to technical and statistic information which may help tell the stories of the European and Scandinavian immigration to the “New World” and the lives which took these people from their familiar world to this strange new land.
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