Documents of Immigration

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Immigrants from China

• Mark Twain's Observations About Chinese Immigrants in California
• A Memorial from Representative Chinamen in America to President U.S. Grant
• Mary Cone Describes the Chinaman in California
• David Phillips Discusses the "Chinese Question"
• Hinton Rowan Helper on Chinese Immigration
• "Enactments So Utterly Un-American"
• Edward Holton's Observations About Denis Kearney, a Leading Advocate of Chinese Exclusion
  
• William C. Pond's Ministry Among Chinese Immigrants in San Francisco
• Chinese vs. Negroes as American Citizens

Late 19^th Century Immigration

• First Land
• French Canadian Textile Worker
• German Immigrants in Texas
• Home, Home on the Plains (North Dakota)
• Minnesota as it is in 1870
• Recollections of a Norwegian Immigrant

Early 20^th Century Immigrants

• The Saranoff Family Embraces America
• Henry Boucher, French Canadian Textile Worker
• Louis T., "I Sell Fish"
• Adam Laboda, Polish Textile Worker
• Steve Comeau, French Canadian Immigrant
• An Interview with Roland Damiani
• Photos and Films of Immigration

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