Section: Immigration
 

Directory: New York City History

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Section: Emigration/Immigration
Sub Section: Discussed by the United States and other Countries
Article Name: Emigration Pre-1900 Part I
Article Name: Emigration Pre-1900 Part II
Article Name: Emigration From A Different Point of View Pre-1913 Part I
Article Name: Emigration From A Different Point of View Pre-1913 Part II
Article Name: Emigration From A Different Point of View Pre-1913 Part III
Article Name: Presidential Papers Regarding Immigration Pre-1897
Article Name: The Martin Koszta Affair Pre-1857
Article Name: Argentina and It's Immigration Law Pre-1908
Article Name: Chile and Bolivia Prior to 1908
Article Name: Paraguay-Immigration Encouraged By Government
Article Name: Uruguay: The Ease of the Immigration Law Pre-1926
Article Name: Brazil: Immigration Law Pre-1908
Article Name: Austria-Hungary (Officially the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy)
Article Name: Belgium and Australia Pre -1900
Article Name: Germany Pre-1900
Article Name: Ireland: Causes of Emigration Pre-1900
Article Name: Italy and It's Emigration Pre-1900
Article Name: Chinese Immigration In The United States Pre-1900
Article Name: Presidential Papers 1789-1897 Regarding Chinese Immigration Part I
Article Name: Presidential Papers 1789-1897 Regarding Chinese Immigration Part II
Article Name: Causes Of Emigration/Immigration of The Jewish People Pre 1900 Part I
Article Name: Causes Of Emigration/Immigration of The Jewish People Pre 1900 Part II
Article Name: Quarantine: An Effective Measure In The Control of Contagious Diseases
Web Link: Landmarks In Immigration History


Special Mention: "I Go To America, " Reaching For The American Dream by Miriam Medina: This is a four part essay on the subject of Immigration during the period of the 19th century through the early 20th century.        1/30/07

Fleeing From Communist Oppression: The Great Cuban Exodus 1959 by Miriam Medina       2/2/07


Section: Immigration In New York
Sub Section: General Historical Information
Article Name: The Emigrant, Pre-1868
Article Name: Immigration In The State Of New York Pre-1927
Article Name: Castle Garden                  Posted 11/2/06
Web Link On the Trail Of The Immigrant,  A Photo Album of Immigration. This photo album is based upon text and pictures by Edward A.Steiner, published in 1906 by the Fleming H.Revell Company.
Web Link A Slide show of Immigrants: Watch the immigrants closely as you imagine yourself being in their situation. Imagine how they felt, what went on in their minds, while you see the expressions on their faces becoming real.
Web Link The Journey To America: Bridging the Atlantic
Web Link Relive A Boy's Journey
Web Link The Immigrant Experience Social  History: Part 1 & 2
Web Link Passage To America, 1750 (A German immigrant describes the arduous journey to Colonial America)
Web Link Story of Immigration in the United States-Ellis Island
Web Link Getting Tagged For Railroad Trip by Official in Ellis Island-1905
Web Link The Barge Office-1898
Web Link Abuses At The  Barge Office-1900
Web Link Immigrant Life in New York
Web Link The Restoration of Ellis Island
Web Link Immigrating to America 1905
Web Link Castle Garden America's First Immigration Center
Web Link New York Naturalizations 1792-1840
Web Link The Forgotten of Ellis Island: Deaths in Quarantine 1909-1911

Sub Section: Selected Images of Ellis Island and Immigration 1880-1920
Special Mention: "My Trip To Ellis Island Photo Gallery" a narration with pictures by Miriam Medina
Web Link Waiting for Ellis Island Ferry
Web Link Welcome to the Land of Freedom
Web Link Landing At Ellis Island
Web Link Ellis Island, New York
Web Link Awaiting Examination, Ellis Island
Web Link Examination Hall Ellis Island
Web Link Emigrants Coming To The Land of Promise
Web Link Italian Immigrant Family at Ellis Island

Sub Section: How The Immigrants Lived In New York: Photographer: Lewis W. Hine: George Eastman House Collection
Web Link Tenement Life-child bathing in Sink
Web Link Poor Home New York City Tenement
Web Link Child Labor At Home
Web Link New York Tenement Family Gets Fresh Air On a Hot Day, 1910
Web Link Newsboys in the early 1900s
Web Link Street Play in the Early Days of New York City-1910
Web Link Boys With Wagons of Scrap Wood
Web Link Boy Carrying Home Work From New York  Sweatshops
Web Link Child Labor in Tenement Building
Web Link Negro Family, Tenement Living Photo
Web Link Italian Family Making Artificial Flowers in Tenement Building
Web Link Women Rag Pickers-1915
Web Link Tenement Street Scene-1910
Web Link Kitchen in a Cold Water Flat Tenement
Web Link New York Home Work in Tenement
Web Link New York Homework Family 1906


Sub Section: The Marchand Collection At The University of California
Web Link Italian Immigrants in the Sleeping Quarters that New York offered the Newcomers.
Web Link A Sweatshop Tenement Flat on Ludlow Street, New York. 1889
Web Link Children Playing in Street Sprinkler 1915
Web Link Father, mother and daughter work together sewing clothing at home."
Web Link An Italian family and five bunches of artificial flowers in its New York City Home, 1908.
Web Link Hester Street, c. 1903. The heart of New York City's Lower East Side
Web Link Child tenement dwellers on a fire escape
Web Link An alley strewn with bottles and trash, 1889
Web Link Mother with infant and children in sleeping area of a crowded tenement apartment, c.1910
Web Link Immigrants making clothing at a shop, 1912
Web Link Mother and children in a tenement kitchen, 1915
Web Link Immigrant family working on sewing at home: the Romana family, New York City, 1912.
Web Link Pushcart peddler in Lower East Side, New  York, early 1900s.
Web Link Crowded Hester Street, early 1900s.
Web Link Orchard Street in New York, 1898
Web Link A Street in the Five Points district of New York City, 1870. The slum streets were narrow, crowded and strewn with garbage.
Web Link Steerage passengers. The "huddled masses," steerage passengers who came by the thousands between 1880 and 1914 to escape the unbearable conditions in Eastern Europe.
Web Link Italian Family Looking for Baggage in Ellis Island
Web Link Deck scene on an immigrant liner in the first years of the 20th century
Web Link Immigrants penned up by nationality on Ellis Island c. 1910.


Section: Ethnic Groups of New York
Sub Section: The Italians
Article Name: The Italian Immigrant in New York
Special Mention: The Italian Immigrant Experience  by Miriam Medina                               Posted 1/10/08           
Article Name: The Joy of Growing up Italian (Permission to use granted by DellaRocchetta.com)
Article Name: Italian Feast In Brooklyn 1900                                                                   Posted 1/7/08
Article Name: Italians Celebrating Saint Roque's Day 1902                                             Posted 1/7/08
Article Name: Brooklyn's Little Italy 1900 Part I                                                                Posted 1/7/08
Article Name: Brooklyn's Little Italy 1900 Part II                                                                Posted 1/7/08
Article Name: Fifth Avenue and A Church In Little Italy 1896                                           Posted 1/11/08
Article Name: Abuse Against An Italian At Barge Office 1902                                         Posted 1/11/08
Article Name: Irate Italians Over New Orleans Lynching Discussed in N.Y. 1891           Posted 1/11/08
Article Name: The Immigrant Coming Here To Suffer 1900                                               Posted 1/12/08
Article Name: Italian Immigration Abuses                                                                          Posted 1/12/08
Article Name: The Danger Encountered by Girl Immigrants 1880                                     Posted 1/12/08
Article Name: South Brooklyn Vendetta or Mafia? Part I 1896                                         Posted 1/16/08
Article Name: South Brooklyn Vendetta or Mafia? Part II 1896                                        Posted 1/16/08
Article Name: South Brooklyn Vendetta or Mafia? Part III 1896                                       Posted 1/16/08
Article Name: South Brooklyn Vendetta or Mafia? Part IV 1896                                      Posted 1/16/08
Article Name: South Brooklyn Vendetta or Mafia? Part V 1896                                       Posted 1/16/08
Article Name: Sicilian's Save Money To Carry Out Their Vengeance here 1902            Posted 1/28/08
Article Name: Old Vendetta in Sicily Behind Catania Killing 1902                                     Posted 1/28/08
Article Name: Italian Life In New York 1892 Part I                                                            Posted 2/20/08
Article Name: Italian Life in New York 1892 Part II                                                           Posted 2/20/08
Article Name: The Italian Women and Their Families 1919                                               Posted 2/22/08
Web Link Italian Immigration
Web Link Italians to America (genealogy)
Web Link Mark Pezzano: Italian Folk Singer
Web Link Becoming Americans, The Italian Experience in the New World
Web Link lItalian Lodge and Foundation
Web Link Mama Mi Sei Sorella, Amica e Consigliera: The Many Roles That the Italian Mother Plays
Web Link Notable Italians in New York
Web Link The Wartime Violations of Italian American Civil Liberties Act
Web Link Injustice to Italian Laborers: A Deplorable Lynching-Presidential Papers
Web Link Italian Immigration in New York
Web Link Musica Palermo: The Debut of Sollima's Opera "Ellis Island
Web Link Prisoner in Your Own Home
Web Link Italian-Americans
Web Link Ships Links on Italian Genealogy
Web Link Cimorelli
Web Link Series of Talks by Pope Leo XIII Feb. 20, 1878-July 20, 1903.
Web Link Series of Talks by Pope John Paul II 1978-2005
Web Link Italy Research Outline
Web Link Group of Italians at Ellis Island Photo 1905
Web Link Italian Ancestry.com -The Ultimate Jump site For All Things Italian
Web Link Italian Family Making Artificial Flowers in East Side Tenement-1908
Web Link Lodge-Sons of Italy
Web Link The Lisanti Family Chapel in Williamsbridge, The Bronx
Web Link Italian Family Making Artificial Flowers in East Side Tenement-1908
Web Link Italian Family Looking For Luggage in Ellis Island-picture
Web Link East Harlem Italian Feast , Giglio Feast
Web Link Our Lady of Mount Carmel Feast-East Harlem
Web Link The Naming of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge :Italian Historical Society