Immigrant Arrivals: A Guide To Published
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General Works on Immigration
Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies. Research Library.
A Guide to Manuscript and Microfilm Collections of the Research
Library of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies.
Compiled and edited by Monique Bourque and R. Joseph Anderson. Philadelphia,
Pa.: The Institute, 1992. ix, 129 p., ill., index.
LC call number: Z1361 .E4B35 1992
LC control number: 92245473
Established in 1971, the Balch Institute is a privately endowed
independent research library that "endeavors to document and interpret
all of the county's racial and ethnic groups." Holdings include
published works, manuscript collections, microforms, audiovisual
materials, photographs, artifacts, and works of art. The guide
lists collections by country of origin. The full text of the guide,
including updated material since the 1992 publication, is available
on the Balch Institute
web site (under the link "Manuscript guide").
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The Cambridge Survey of World Migration.
Edited by Robin Cohen. Cambridge, New York:Cambridge University
Press, 1995. 570 p., ill., index.
Emigration and immigration history.
LC call number: JV6021 .C35 1995
LC control number: 95016842
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Colletta, John Philip.
They Came in Ships: A Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor's
Arrival Record. 2nd ed., rev. and enl. Salt Lake
City, Utah: Ancestry, 1993. xv, 93 p., ill., bibliography.
LC call number: CS49 .C63 1993 LH&G
LC control number: 93026835
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Daniels, Roger.
Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity
in American Life. New York: HarperCollins, 1990.
xii, 450 p., ill., maps, bibliographical references, index.
LC call number: E184 .A1D26 1990 MRR Alc
LC control number: 89046524
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Dictionary of American Immigration History.
Edited by Prancesco Cordasco. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1990.
xxv, 784 p., bibliography.
LC call number: JV6450 .D53 1990 LH&G; MRR Alc
LC control number: 89037041
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Forgotten Doors: The Other Ports of Entry to the
United States. Edited by M. Mark Stolarik. Philadelphia:
Balch Institute Press, 1988. Bibliographical references, index.
LC call number: JV6450 .F67 1988
LC control number: 87062319
An essay in each of 8 chapters is devoted to a "forgotten"
U.S. port of entry followed by comments of a different author. The
ports include Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Miami, New Orleans,
San Francisco, and Los Angeles. ". . . different kinds of immigrants
came to these port cities and gave each a distinctive character,
one that would print the fabric of these urban areas and make them
very different from one another."
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Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups.
Edited by Stephan Thernstrom. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of
Harvard University, 1980. xxv, 1076 p., maps, bibliographies.
LC call number: E184 .A1H35 LH&G
LC control number: 80017756
Includes "Groups and Definitions," a "Thematic Essay,"
"Maps," and "Tables." The compilers identify and define approximately
120 ethnic groups in the U.S., and provide essays on a variety of
related subjects such as "Family Patterns," "Immigration: History
of U.S. Policy," "Loyalties: Dual and Divided," and "Resources and
Research Centers," etc. Maps and tables show distribution of ethnic
groups and their occupations.
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Kraut, Alan M.
The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921.
Arlington Heights, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1982. xi, 212 p., plates,
ill., index, bibliography.
LC call number: JV6450 .K7 1982
LC control number: 81017488
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Reimers, David M.
Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America.
2nd ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. xii, 362 p.,
bibliography, index.
LC call number: JV6455 .R45 1992
LC control number: 91032758
Emigration to the U.S. in the 20th century.
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Tepper, Michael.
American Passenger Arrival Records: A Guide to the Records
of Immigrants Arriving at American Ports by Sail and Steam.
Updated and enl. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1993. 142 p.,
bibliography.
LC call number: CS49 .T46 1993 LH&G
LC control number: 93070370
Discusses types of extant passenger and emigration lists
from the Colonial period to the modern era.
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University of Minnesota. Immigration History Research Center.
The Immigration History Research Center: A Guide to Collections.
Compiled and edited by Suzanna Moody and Joel Wurl; foreword by
Rudolph J. Vecoli. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. xxiii, 446 pp.,
ill., bibliographies.
LC call number: Z1361 .E4U58 1991 LH&G; MRR Alc
LC control number: 91016262
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