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Immigrant Arrivals: A Guide To Published SourcesPersonal Narratives & Correspondence America, the Dream of My Life: Selections from the
Federal Writers Project's New Jersey Ethnic Survey.
Edited by David Steven Cohen. New Brunswick: Rutgers University
Press, 1990. xvi, 295 p., ill., bibliographical references, index. American Mosaic: The Immigrant Experience in the
Words of Those Who Lived It. Compiled by Joan Morrison
and Charlotte Fox Zabusky. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh
Press, 1993. xxi, 457 p.
Over 130 narratives in three parts: "The Last of the Old: The Traditional Immigrants" (19th-early 20th centuries); "The Wartime Influx: Heroes, Victims, Survivors" (World War II); and "Immigration: A Continuing Process" (mid-to-late 20th century). Arksey, Laura, Nancy Pries, and Marcia Reed.
Vol. 1, covers 1491-1844; vol. 2, covers 1845-1980. Separate indexes for personal names, subjects, and geographical places names. Bontemps, Arna Wendell, comp. Choy, Bong-Youn. Davis, Marilyn P. Mexican Voices.
Dutch American Voices: Letters from the United States,
1850-1930. Edited by Herbert J. Brinks. Ithaca,
N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995. xvi, 480 p., ill., maps, bibliographical
references, index. Epstein, Helen.
Explores, "through personal interviews, a particular group of Americans who survived one of the most devastating experiences in history." The 250 interviewees included men and women Holocaust survivors, 5 adults who were married to survivors, and 40 children of survivors. Erickson, Charlotte.
A study of 19th-century English emigration to the United States using personal letters, passenger lists, census data on both sides of the Atlantic, other documents, as well as published scholarly works. In Their Own Words: Letters from Norwegian Immigrants.
Edited, Translated, and Introduced by Solveig Zempel. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press in Cooperation with the Norwegian-American
Historical Association, 1991. xviii, 225 p., ill., maps, bibliographical
references, index. Italians in Chicago Oral History Project. University
of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Sanford, N.C.: Microfilming
Corp. of America, 1981. A New York Times Oral History Program. 120
microfiches.
A published guide to the collection (LC call number AI 3.07, No. 3; shelved in MRR Reference Assistance Room) contains an alphabetical list of participants. Collection consists of 112 interviews, transcribed. McClunn, Ruthanne Luam.
Biographical sketches of 17 individuals and their families from different walks of life, profusely illustrated with photographs. News from the Land of Freedom: German Immigrants
Write Home. Edited by Walter D. Kamphoefner, Wolfgang
Helbich, and Ulrike Sommer; translated by Susan Carter Vogel. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1991. ix, 645 p., ill., maps, bibliographic
references, index.
Notes and introductions throughout help the reader "understand the letter texts, interpret their contents, and relate the fates of individual letter-writers to the overall historical context." The Old Land and the New: The Journals of Two Swiss
Families in America in the 1820s. Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press, 1965. 281 p., ill. Russian Emigres Oral History Collection. University
of California, Berkeley. Glen Rock, N.J.: Microfilming
Corp. of America, 1978. A New York Times Oral History Program. 1
microfilm reel, ill., maps. Six Women's Slave Narratives, With an Introduction
by William L. Andrews. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1988. xli, iv, 328 (various pagings), port. Stave, Bruce M., John F. Sutherland, with Aldo Salerno.
Short oral interviews with European immigrants conducted during the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), combined with subsequent interviews 40 to 50 years later, arranged under chapter headings: "The Homeland," "Crossing and Arrival," "At Work in America," "Family and Community," "Women and Men, Love and Marriage," and "Immigrants United and Divided." Ulster Migration to America: Letters from Three Irish
Families. Compiled by Ronald A. Wells. New York:
P. Lang, 1991. Irish Studies, vol. 2. 170 p., facsims., bibliographical
references. Vitiello, Justin. Voices, A Filipino American Oral History.
Stockton, CA: Filipino Oral History Project, 1984. 64 p., ill.,
bibliography. Voices from Ellis Island (Microform): An Oral History
of American Immigration: A Project of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis
Island Foundation. Frederick, MD: University Publications
of America, 1987.
Published guide available (guide no. 279 shelved in MRR Reference Assistance Room). More than 200 transcribed interviews with immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island Immigration Station between 1892-1924, or who were employed at the Station. Interviewees were from Russia, Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, Hungary, France, Belgium, Great Britain, Rumania, Spain, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Japan. Writing Home: Immigrants in Brazil and the United
States, 1890-1891. Edited and trans. by Josephine
Wtulich. Boulder: East European Monographs; New York: Distributed
by Columbia University Press, 1986. xiii, 698 p., ill., maps, bibliographical
references.
Letters from Polish Americans in the United States, pp. 179-501. A useful glossary of terms has a direct bearing on material in the text. |
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