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Search results: Immigrant USA. The collection of archives, photos and books by the immigrants & ethnic minorities. Dedicated to International Antiquarian Book Fair in San Francisco
Photo Album With Hundred Seventeen Photos and a Diary of Mary Louise Fitzgerald, a Teacher of Arts & English, documenting her being a substitute teacher for Boston Public Schools in the year 1952-1953, spending few months teaching predominately African-American 7th grade in Charlestown High School, Boston, later being transformed to a number of other schools in Boston for a short period of time that year, before being assigned to a permanent position in Randolph Public School for the year 1954. Boston, MA. Ca.1953.
Zemlia Kolumba. Sborniki literatury i iskusstva [i.e. Columbus's Land. A Collection of Literature and Art]. Vol 1-2 [all published]. / edited by B. Miklashevsky. New York; San Francisco; Los Angeles, 1936.
Large Original Photograph Panorama of the Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Opening of the Buddhist School at the Los Angeles Branch of the Higashi Honganji Temple. Ca. 1940.
Historically Interesting Extensive Collection of 167 Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs from the Archive of a California-based Black Family, Documenting Family Gatherings, Weddings, Holidays, Various Activities (Including Attending Football Games and Sulphur Springs), Exhibiting at Farmer’s Market, as well as Photos of their Relatives and Friends in Memphis, TN, and Chicago with Captions. Oakland, Los Angeles, San Francisco: ca. 1943-1953.
Garabedian, Simon S. (1873–1931). Original Autograph Letter Signed by an Early Armenian Immigrant in Boston Simon S. Garabedian to His Armenian Friend Nazereth Chordigian in Fresno, California. Boston, 25 August 1901.
Chan, Eva Fong (1897-1991). Archive of Fifteen Ink Drawings and Watercolors, Showing Artist At Work, Landscapes Of Places In Her Local Bay Area, Color Wheels, Drawings Of Clothing, Including The Study of Native American Cradleboard, Textile Designs etc., All Signed. [San Francisco Bay Area], ca 1930s.
Kotsiris, Andreas (? - 1935). Historically Interesting Original Letter Written by a Greek Chicago Shop Owner to His Brother in Greece, Discussing Business Matters. Chicago: ca. 6 October 1918.
Kahn, Mordecai (ca. 1887-1926), Kahn, Morris (ca. 1891-1934). Historically Significant Archive of Twenty Handwritten Pages of Correspondence, Including Fourteen Original Letters, Documenting the Personal and Professional Relationships of Kahn Brothers, Cardiologists in New York’s Beth Israel and Mount Sinai Hospitals, and Focusing on their Work on Treating Diabetes and Tuberculosis that Eventually Led to the Discovery of Intarvin by Max Kahn in 1923; also Concerning their Lives as Young Jewish American Professionals in New York and Washington, Max’s Work with US FDA, and Max’s Correspondence to their Mother in Yiddish. Washington, New York, Pittsuburg Ca.1910-1920.
A small archive of Valgie Bluzmans, a Latvian Immigrant to Be, at The Time of Him Being Held at DP Camp in Germany, Getting Ready to Make a Trip to United States.
Coyne, Joseph. Original Autograph Letter Written by British Ship Owner Joseph Coyne from Baltimore to A. Bell & Son in New York, Regarding German and Irish Diaspora Soldiers as Expendable Military Assets During the Mexican–American War. Baltimore, Maryland : 9 November 1846.
Blair, Thomas M (ca. 1801-1892). Historically Significant Antebellum Bill of Emancipation, Signed by a Missouri Lawman, Thomas M. Blair, to Formally Manumit his 33-Year-Old “Bright Mulatto” Slave, William. Perryville, Missouri: 17 November & 23 December 1857.
Dębicki, Z. Za Atlantykiem. Wrażenia z pobytu w Stanach Zjednoczonych Ameryki północnej. [i.e. Across the Atlantic. Impressions from a stay in the United States of America] Lwow: Nakł. Gebethnera i Wolffa, 1921.
Original Autograph Manuscript Letter Written by German Immigrant Mother and Daughter in Early Fredericksburg, Texas, with Observations on Pioneer Life of Children and the California Gold Rush. [Fredericksburg], Texas: 20 June 1850.