MS Am 2245 Immigration Restriction League (U.S.). Immigration Restriction League
(U.S.) records: Guide.
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Call No.: MS Am 2245
Creator: Immigration Restriction League
(U.S.).
Title: Immigration Restriction League (U.S.) records,
Date(s): 1893-1921.
Quantity: 8 cartons and 17 volumes (12 linear ft.)
Abstract: Records of the Immigration Restriction League (U.S.), especially those of
Prescott F. (Farnsworth) Hall, one of the founders and executive secretary from
1896-1921.
Processed by: J.F. Coakley, Katy Rawdon, Deborah A. Richards, Bonnie B. Salt, and
Melanie Wisner
Recataloged from the following call numbers:
- XP 9979 (formerly US 1058x.xx) loose pamphlets on
immigration.
- US 10583.9.8 IRL. Annual Reports, 1894-1903.
- US 10583.9.25F Record books of the IRL.
- US 10583.9.30F Papers: a special collection of manuscript
records, reports, etc.
- US 10583.9.36 List of previous members, 1927.
- XP 9979 (formerly US 10587.20.5, US 10587.20.10)
Bound book containing pamphlets on immigration restriction.
- XP 9979 (formerly US 10587.20.15, US 10587.20.20,
US 10587.20.25, US 10587.20.30, US
10587.20.35) Bound clippings books on immigration restriction.
- XP 9979 (formerly US 10587.25.3) Miscellaneous
documents relating to immigration from the 54th Congress.
- XP 9979 (formerly US 10587.29) Bound clippings books
on immigration, 1894-1920.
- US 10587.29.5F Scrapbooks of Prescott Hall.
- XP 9979 (formerly US 10587.29.10) The Far Eastern Bureau Monthly reports,
1915 Jan. - June.
- US 10587.40 Additional manuscript records, reports, etc.
- US 10587.43 Luce's clippings on immigration.
The bulk of these materials form part of the Harvard College Library Immigration
Collection of Prescott Farnsworth Hall, Class of 1889, Secretary of the Immigration
Restriction League, 1896-1921. Gift of Mrs. Lucyle Hall;
received: 1922 Oct. 7.
A small amount of printed and bound materials in this collection formed part of the
Robert DeCourcy Ward Immigration Collection given through
the Social Ethics Library, 1922 Sept. 21;
transferred from Widener in 1999 as *99M-48.
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Immigration Restriction League (U.S.) Records (MS Am 2245). Houghton Library, Harvard
University.
The Immigration Restriction League was founded in 1894 by three Harvard College
graduates, Charles Warren, Robert DeCourcy Ward,
and Prescott Farnsworth Hall, in response to an
increasing sense of invasion of the United States by "undesirable immigrants" that
threatened their sense of the American way of life. The League was founded in
Boston, but quickly spread to many other cities across the United States. The main
intention of the League was to educate people to what the founders saw as serious
problems in the immigration system, to lobby the U.S. government for the reform of
that system, to gain support for immigration restriction from major intellectual,
industrial, and philanthropic individuals and organizations, and to pass laws
effecting the restriction. The League remained active for nearly twenty years, but
after the death of Hall their energy waned, and the League eventually disbanded.
Prescott F. (Farnsworth) Hall, in addition to being a founding member of the League,
was elected General Secretary to the Executive Committee of Immigration Restriction
Leagues, the overarching board for the national movement, in 1896.
Organized into the following series:
- I. Correspondence to and from the IRL
- A. Correspondence.
- B. Circular letters
- II. Record books of the IRL
- III. Scrapbook
- IV. Compositions
- A. Compositions, 1897-1921
- B. Miscellaneous notes and memoranda, 1894-1921
- C. Undated compositions
- V. Clippings
- VI. Printed materials relating to immigration
- VII. Printed materials by the IRL
- A. IRL administrative materials
- B. IRL numbered publications
- C. Far Eastern Bureau Reports
The bulk of this collection consists of the papers of Hall as a member and secretary
of the League, and includes internal and external correspondence,
essays, drafts, minutes of
meetings, printed materials, and newspaper clippings,
encompassing approximately the dates 1893-1921. Topics include discussions of
desirable and undesirable immigrants, forms of immigration restriction, actions in
the U.S. Congress regarding immigration, eugenics, and views of labor on
immigration.
Some of the people associated with the inner circle of the IRL were: Prescott F.
(Prescott Farnsworth) Hall [secretary and founder], Samuel B. (Samuel Billings)
Capen, Thornton Cooke, James Robert Dunbar, George Franklin Edmunds, Frank Boyd
Gary, Madison Grant, Henry Holt, William Dewitt Hyde, Joseph Lee Franklin MacVeagh,
John F. Moors [president], Robert Treat Paine, Henry Parkman, James Horace Patten,
James Bronson Reynolds, Robert DeCourcy Ward, Charles Warren [founder and
secretary], and Owen Wister. Collection also includes clippings, pamphlets books,
and loose printed materials from the collection of Robert DeCourcy Ward, one of the
founders of the IRL.
Part of the Prescott Farnsworth Hall Immigration Collection remains in the collection
of printed materials in the Harvard College Library. See HOLLIS for additional
information.
There are also additional materials on immigration and this League in the Harvard Law
School Library. See HOLLIS for additional information.
For additional information on the League see: Barbara
Miller Solomon. Ancestors and Immigrants: A Changing New
England Tradition. (University of Chicago Press : 1956).
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Series: I. Correspondence to and from the IRL.
Correspondence ca. 1893-1921, primarily to and from Prescott F. Hall as
Secretary of the Immigration Restriction League, and also to and from other
IRL members. A large amount of the correspondence consists of replies to
form letters, or "circulars," sent out by the IRL to gauge public opinion
and solicit support. These replies range from short notes stating support,
to long letters detailing the respondents' views on immigration.
Correspondents include presidents of many prominent colleges and
universities, as well as public figures such as Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
Theodore Roosevelt, Alexander Graham Bell, Louis Brandeis, and Madison
Grant. Also includes "on-the-road" updates by James Prescott, which are
mainly updates on proceedings in Washington, D.C.
Arrangement: Organized into the following series:
- A. Correspondence
- B. Circular letters
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Series: II. Record books of the IRL.
This series contains four bound volumes that are record books of the internal
workings of the League. Three of the volumes are the minutes of meetings of
the executive committee from 1894-1920. The minutes
generally include date, place, and attendees of the meetings, votes taken,
reports by committee members, and notes on the meetings' discussions. The
fourth volume is a ledger book recording income and expenditures from
1910-1917, entered by date, including the name of contributor or recipient
of funds.
- fMS (1051) Immigration Restriction League. Minutes of
meetings of the executive committee of the IRL (Vol. 2), 1903-1910 (1903 Jan.-1910 Mar.). 1 v. 35 x 22 cm.
Click for color digital facsimile
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Series: III. Scrapbook.
- MS [Shelved with v.1 (1110)] (1054) Immigration Restriction League.
Scrapbook, 1896-1898. 2 v.
This series consists of one bound volume and one folder of loose sheets
(removed from the volume), forming a scrapbook containing
correspondence, clippings,
and resolutions signed by outside organizations favoring
immigration restriction.
An index to the scrapbook follows, pages were numbered in this
repository.
Correspondence includes:
- American Agent's Association, p. 29.
- American Federation of Labor
(Frank Morrison, secy.), p.
30.
- American Federation of Labor. Executive
Council, letter with enclosure of letter from
them to U.S. Congress, p. 55
- American Federation of Labor, Union 6913,
p. 33
- American Federation of Labor, Union 6724,
p. 34
- American Federation of Labor, Woman's Federal Labor
Union 2703 (Mrs. Morgan,
secy), p. 48
- Blacksmith's Helper Union 6931
(Michael Walsh, secy.), p.32
- Boston Chamber of Commerce
(Elwin G. Preston, secy.), letter and
resolution p. 8
- Brigham?, J? H., p. 9
- Brotherhood of Boiler Makers and Iron Ship Builders
of America, (William . J.
Gilthorpe, secy.), p. 46
- Central Trade and Labor Council,
(J. A. Bauer? secy.) p. 50, 56
- Clothing Cutters and Trimmers Union
(Thomas F. Gallagher, clerk), p. 7
- Collins, J.B., p. 90
- Co-operative Trades and Labor Council, p.
36
- Crowley, Jas. G. (Bridge &
Structural Iron Workers' Union #1), p. 25
- Devers?, Sewell, p. 89
- Emery, S. M., p. 11
- Florida Agriculture Dept. (W.
H? Allen), p. 14
- Granite Cutters National Union, Quincy
Branch (James M. Adam,
secy.), p. 43
- Gregg, O. L.,(Minnesota State
Farmers Institute), p. 49
- Idaho Immigration Association
(John M. Haines, secy.), p. 84
- International Brotherhood of Bookbinders Local Union
16 (J. H. Harrington,
secy.), p. 5
- Jordan, W. B. (P.H. Kelly
Mercantile Co.), p. 83
- Journeymen Tailor's Union of America
(John B. Lennon, secy.), p. 28.
- Kidd, Thomas I.(Amalgamate Wood
Workers), p. 109
- Levy?, W? T., p. 40
- McCartny? John F., p. 12
- McGinnis, D. R. (Northwestern
Immigration Association), p. 85
- Mills, James H. (Commissioner,
Montana Bureau of Agriculture , Labor and
Industry), p. 81
- Minnesota's Sixth District Immigration Association
(C. L. Goodell), p. 76, 78
- Napieralski, S. J. (The Polish
Weekly), p. 120
- Narregang, S. W. (South Dakota
Immigration Association), p. 80, 87, letter to
James H. Kile, senator of South Dakota
p. 88, 91, 93
- National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers of
America, p. 47
- New York State Factory Inspector's Office
(Daniel O'Leary), letter and
Resolution, p. 35
- Richardson, C. E. (Duluth,
Minnesota, City Clerk's Office), p. 19
- Schurmeier, Theodore L.
(Northwestern Immigration Association),
p. 86
- Seattle Chamber of Commerce
(Ernest E. Ling, secy.), p.
92
- Smith, Robert? B., p. 42
- Thornson, Thomas (South Dakota
Secretary of State), p. 82
- United Garment Workers of America Local
136 (E.A. Carpenter, secy.),
p. 51
- Weil?, H., p. 31, 32.
- White, Henry, (United Garment
Works of America), p. 38
- Wombuell?, L. B. (Florida
Agricultural Dept. Commissioner's Office, ), p.
13
- Wood, Edwin J. (Core Makers'
International Union), p. 27
Other materials:
- Unidentified telegrams, p. 99
- Immigration Restriction League - List of Senators Supporting
Lodge Bill, 1896, p. 98
- Immigration Restriction League - List: "[News]Papers Opposed
to Restriction," p. 115
Resolutions:
- American Anti-Semitic Association, p. 121
- Atlantic Coast Seamen's Union, p. 4
- Boston Chamber of Commerce
(Elwin G. Preston, secy.), letter and
resolution p. 8
- Minnesota. City of Duluth. Clerk's
Office, p. 10
- Clothing Cutters and Trimmers Union, p.
6, p. 37
- Florida Agriculture Dept. (W.
H? Allen), p. 14
- Hoisting Engineers' Association of
Chicago (? O'Nail, secy.), p. 18
- International Brotherhood of Bookbinders Local Union
16, p. 4
- Knights of Labor. General Assembly
(T. A. Carroll), p. 45
- New York State Factory Inspector's Office
(Daniel O'Leary), letter and
resolution), p. 35
- Screw Maker's Union No. 6585
(James Long, secy.), p. 39
- Sixth Congressional Immigration
Convention (Chas. Goodell),
p. 78
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Series: IV. Compositions.
This series contains manuscript compositions (including printed sheets with
manuscript annotations) by IRL members and compositions by others that
concern immigration and related subjects. These compositions, found with the
IRL records, were in total disarray and, for the most part, authors could
not be determined. Consequently, the materials were arranged in the
repository by date. A few items contain papers with more than one date and
are placed in the series according to their latest dates.
Materials include: draft essays, drafts of
governmental bills, notes and note cards for essays
and speeches (presumably authored by Hall),
resolutions or endorsements written or signed by other organizations
favoring immigration restriction, notes and reports by other organizations,
and lists (primarily by the League), including
membership, contributions, and influence lists.
Arrangement: Organized into the following sub-series:
- A. Compositions, 1897-1921
- B. Miscellaneous notes and memoranda, 1894-1921 and undated
- C. Undated compositions
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A. Compositions, 1897-1921.
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(1055) Compositions, 1897-1902.
6 folders.
- Hall, Prescott F. (Prescott Farnsworth),
1868-1921. "Immigration" : print with Ms
annotations, [ca. 1897]. Hall's article for the Encyclopedia of
Social Reform, 2nd. ed., 1898.
- Lists of newspapers in favor of immigration restriction :
Ts, 1897, with Ms annotations up to 1901.
- United States. Bureau of Immigration.
"Instructions" : Ts, 1898.
- Lists of newspapers in favor of immigration restriction :
Tss, 1902.
- Official recommendations as to amendments in the
immigration laws : Ts, 1902.
- United States. Commissioner of Immigration for
the Port of New York. "Annual report
to the Commissioner General of Immigration" : Ts
(carbon), 1902.
-
(1056) Compositions, 1903.
7 folders.
- Hall, Prescott F. (Prescott Farnsworth),
1868-1921. Notes for the book Immigration and
its effects upon the United States (1906) :
AMss, Tss, clippings, 1894-1903
and undated. The papers are marked with Roman
numbers, apparently incomplete. These appear to correspond
for the most part to the chapters of the published book,
although some numbers correspond to the chapters of the
earlier draft (see the next item). Includes sections: I, II,
III, IV, VI, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIIG, XIV, XV,
XX-XXIII. Section II includes an undated letter from
Charles T. Wentworth to
Richards M. Bradley. Section XIIG
includes a draft headed "Constitutionality of immigration
legislation."
- Immigration Restriction League.
Memorandum of agreement with F. H.
Ainsworth. With instructions to him as IRL
agent in New York : Tss, 1903.
- Resolutions favoring restriction of immigration by an
illiteracy test : print, 1902-1903. Printed form of a
resolution filled in by various societies.
-
(1057) Compositions, 1904.
5 folders.
- Hall, Prescott F. (Prescott Farnsworth),
1868-1921. Our
future city population and its relation to city
government : Ts, 1904. Annotated: This article
is the substance of an address delivered before the
Economic Club of Boston, Apr. 28,
1904.
- Hall, Prescott F. (Prescott Farnsworth),
1868-1921. Table of contents for a book on
immigration and the Immigration Restriction League : Ts with
Ms annotations, 1904. This appears to be a draft of Hall's
1906 book Immigration and its effects upon the United
States, but the chapter numbers are different,
and there are extra chapters here. Possibly a later version?
- United States. Bureau of Immigration.
Annual report for
the Ellis Island Immigrant Station for the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1904 : Ts (duplicated), 1904.
- Report to Conference Committee of the Southeastern
Passenger Association : Ts (carbon), 1904.
- Gannett, Henry. Statement on immigration policy : Ts,
1904.
-
(1058) Compositions, 1905.
6 folders.
-
Aliens Act, 1905 (5
Edw. 7, cap. 13) : Ts (carbon), 1905.
- Extracts from reports of the Commissioner-General of
Immigration : Tss, [ca. 1905].
-
History of illiteracy test
bills : Ts and Ms, 1905.
- Immigration Restriction League.
Influence lists : Tss, 1903, 1905 and
undated.
- Lists of organizations favoring an educational test for
immigrants : print, Tss, Mss, [ca. 1905].
- 59th Congress. A bill to amend an act ... 1905.
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(1059) Compositions, 1906.
5 folders.
- Bibliographies of publications on immigration : Tss, Ms,
1906 and undated.
- Hall, Prescott F. (Prescott Farnsworth),
1868-1921. Address of Prescott F. Hall before
the Immigration Department of the National Civic
Federation in New York, September 24, 1906 :
Ts with Ms annotations, 1906.
- Immigration Restriction League. List
of contributors and list of past contributors : Tss, 1906.
- National Civic Federation. Papers of
the Committee on Basal Statistics : Tss, 1906. With a page
of Ts minutes of a meeting of the
Committee on Legislation and its Enforcement of the
Immigration Department, 1906.
- Safford, Moses Victor. Definitions of various terms used in
medical certificates : Ts, Ts (carbon), 1906.
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(1060) Compositions, 1907.
9 folders.
- Concerning the National Liberal Immigration
League, and its objects : Ts, [ca. 1907].
- Immigration Restriction League. Lists
of charitable and labor organizations : print, Ms, 1897,
1907 and undated.
- Immigration Restriction League.
Payments received by IRL beginning June 1, 1905
End. Mar 31, 1907 : Ms, 1907.
- Reynolds, James Bronson, 1861-1924.
Memorandum regarding the treatment of the insane
and mentally defective at Ellis Island, 1906 or 1907.
- Sherwood, Herbert F. Reports to the
National Liberal Immigration League
: Tss, 1907. With a letter conveying these to
Prescott F. (Prescott Farnsworth) Hall.
- United States. Immigration Commission.
Air space for
immigrants on shipboard. With other papers on
this subject : Tss, [ca. 1907].
- United States. Immigration Commission.
Papers concerning Belgian immigrants to
South Carolina. Includes
correspondence with Ebbie Julian
Watson, South Carolina State Commissioner of
Commerce, Agriculture and Immigration, 1907.
- United States. Immigration Commission.
Report of the subcommittee to which was assigned
the territory of Northern Italy, France, Switzerland,
Germany, on the European trip : Ts (carbon) , 2 copies,
[1907].
- [United States. Immigration Commission.
Report of the subcommittee to which was assigned
the territory of Southern Italy, Austria, Hungary, Greece :
Ts (carbon) , [1907]]. Probable identification: the first
page is lost. With a letter to the Commission from
Messina signed by Maurice
Fishberg and Robert Doremus.
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(1061) Compositions, 1908-1910.
7 folders.
- Hall, Prescott F. (Prescott Farnsworth),
1868-1921. Eugenics and immigration : Ts, [ca. 1908].
- Hall, Prescott F. (Prescott Farnsworth),
1868-1921. Speech to a conference of charity
workers : Ts, undated. [1910?].
- Immigration Restriction League.
Submission to the Commissioner of Immigration :
Ms and Ts, [ca. 1910].
-
Needed immigration
legislation : Ts, [ca. 1910]. Mentions Gardner
bill.
- U.S. Immigration Service. Annual report for Ellis Island :
Ts (carbon), 1910.
- New York (State). State commission in lunacy. Brief left
with Judge Taft, Augusta, Ga : Ts (carbon) two copies, 1909.
- Statistical statement showing certifications of contagious
diseases and serious mental defects....at Ellis Island : Ts
(carbon), 1907.
-
(1062) Compositions, 1911.
5 folders.
- Marburg, Theodore, 1862-1946. Address
of Theodore Marburg, Esq. Delivered before the
American Society of International
Law at Washington, D. C. April 28, 1911 : Ts,
1911.
- Patriotic Order of the Sons of America.
Report of Committee on Legislation : Ts, 1911.
- Safford, Moses Victor. Memorandum
embodied in a report to the Surgeon-General of the
U.S. Public Health and
Marine-Hospital Service, June 14,
1911 with reference to his conclusions as to the
contagiousness of trachoma : Ts, 1911.
- Salmon, Thomas W. (Thomas William), 1876-1927.
Insanity and the
immigration law : Ts (carbon), [1911].
- Statements of Secretary Charles Nagel
before the House Committee on Rules, July 10, 1911 : Ts
(carbon), 2 copies.
-
(1063) Compositions, 1912.
10 folders.
- Brown, Goodwin, 1852-1912. Memoranda
relative to the further restriction of the admission of the
insane to the United States : Ts, 1912.
- Hall, Prescott F. (Prescott Farnsworth),
1868-1921. Memorandum in re Senate Bill 3175
: Tss, 1912.
- Immigration Restriction League.
Active members December 20 1905 : Ts with Ms
annotations, 1905-1912. Annotated: Revised to March 1, 1912.
- Immigration Restriction League.
Publications of the Immigration Restriction
League no. 63 : Ts, [1912?].
- New York (State). Board of Alienists.
Report for year ending September 30, 1911 : Ts,
[ca. 1912]. With statistical tables.
- New York (State). State Commission in Lunacy.
Letters to Italian Consulate etc. about aliens to
be deported, 1911-12.
- Record of Massachusetts representatives on labor
legislation (on measures advocated by labor) : Ts (carbon),
1912.
- Republican National Committee (U.S.).
Press release concerning
Taft's attitude to immigration;
with a reply [from the IRL?], [1912].
- Ward, Robert DeCourcy, 1867-1931.
The crisis in our
immigration policy : Ts, [ca. 1912].
- Circular letter against the election of Robert E. Lee to
Congress : Ts (carbon), 1912?
-
(1064) Compositions, 1913.
9 folders.
- American Breeders Association.
Immigration Committee of the Eugenics Section.
First report : Tss with Ms annotations, 1911. Three copies
of the report, with differences. With a notebook containing
Ms minutes by Prescott
Hall, 1912-1913.
- Hall, Prescott F. (Prescott Farnsworth),
1868-1921. The
recent history of immigration and immigration
restriction : AMs, 1913. Published in the Journal of Political Economy
for October 1913; with letters from the editor, and
galley proof of a reader's letter
published in the same journal.
- Immigration Restriction League.
Digest immigration Feb. 20 1907 - date : Ms,
1913. A chronicle of immigration legislation and history of
the League.
- Immigration Restriction League. Lists
of college professors and public officials favoring the
reading test for immigrants : Mss, 1913.
- Immigration Restriction League.
M.D.'s on the influence list of the Immigration
Restriction League : Tss, 1913. 2 copies.
- Lima, Ernest A. de. The history of the immigration bill
vetoed by President Cleveland and The history of the immigration bill
vetoed by President Taft : Tss, [1913].
- Review of the book Immigration by
Henry Pratt Fairchild : Ts, [ca.
1913].
- Safford, Moses Victor. The business
side of immigration : Ts (carbon), 1913.
- [United States?]. Bureau of Deportation.
Report for year ending September 30, 1912 : Ts
(mostly mimeographed), [ca. 1913].
-
(1065) Compositions, 1914.
4 folders.
- American Genetics Association. Second
Report of the Committee on Immigration of the Eugenics
Section : Ts (carbon), 1914.
- Hall, Prescott F.(Prescott Farnsworth),
1868-1921. Lecture
notes on immigration : 8 x 5 notecards and 5
x 3 notecards, 1914.
- McKnight, Jno. A. Form
letters soliciting members of an
organization to write to their congressmen in favor of
immigration restriction : Tss with Ms annotations, 1914.
- Memorandum for the president in favor of the reading test
provisions of the Burnett Immigration Bill (H.R. 6060) : Ts
(carbon), 1914.
-
(1066) Compositions, 1915-1916.
6 folders.
- Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple, 1856-1929.
Newspaper editorials : Tss, [1915]. With lists of
newspapers to which sent and a form letter to editors.
- Memorandum concerning Massachusetts congressman
James A. Gallinan, 1915.
- Paton, Stewart, 1865-1942. Amendments
in the immigration bill (H.R. 6060) which relate to
exclusion and deportation of insane and mentally defective
immigrants : Ts, 1915.
- Some comments on the speech of Senator
Reed, February 4, 1915 : AMs
(draft) and Ts, 1915.
- Endorsements of immigration restriction by organizations,
a large majority of them being for a reading test : Tss (3
copies, one marked "Office Copy" with Ms annotations),
1913-1916.
One copy is dated Oct. 1913. The latest annotations are from
1916.
- Sullivan, J.W. Address at meeting to discuss problems in
minimum wage legislation : Ts (carbon), 1915.
-
(1067) Compositions, 1917.
3 folders.
- Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924. Statement
against relaxation of restriction on Chinese coolie
immigration, [ca. 1917].
- Immigration Restriction League.
Consolidated membership and influence list, 1914-
: Ts with AMs annotations, 1914-1917. The latest dated
annotations are from 1917.
- World Alliance for Promoting International
Friendship through the Churches. Minutes of a
meeting, with declaration : Tss, 1917.
-
(1068) Compositions, 1918.
4 folders.
- Immigration Restriction League. A
preliminary draft : a bill to regulate immigration, to
promote Americanization and to modify the requirements for
the acquisition of citizenship by naturalization : Ts
(carbon), [ca. 1918].
- Immigration Restriction League. Names
of committee members and prospective members : Tss and Mss,
1918 and undated.
- United States. Congress. Joint
resolution authorizing the admission to the United States of
aliens who are refugees from conditions created by the war,
[ca. 1918]. Draft?
- United States. Congress. House. A
Bill to regulate the immigration of aliens to the United
States : Tss, [ca. 1918]. 2 copies. Envelope suggests this
is H.R. 11280 (1918).
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(1069) Compositions, 1919.
4 folders.
- Hall, Prescott F. (Prescott Farnsworth),
1868-1921. Immigration. Boston City Club, Mar
10 : AMs, [ca. 1919]. Notes on 3 x 5 cards.
- Immigration Restriction League.
Mailing list : Tss with Ms annotations, 1919.
Annotated: Revised to Oct. 1, 1919.
- Immigration Restriction League.
Membership list : Tss, 1914, 1919. Two Tss dated
1914, one altered in Ms and marked "Office Copy corrected
Jan. 1919."
- Millard, Thomas F. (Thomas Franklin), 1868-.
Japan, "race equality," and the League of Nations
: Ts (duplicated), 1919. 5 copies.
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(1070) Compositions, 1920-1921. 11 folders.
- Foerster, Robert F. (Robert Franz), 1883-1941.
Probable growth of the oriental population of
continental United States under the proposed Gulick law :
Ts, [ca. 1920].
- Hall, Prescott F. (Prescott Farnsworth),
1868-1921. Immigration and the World War :
Ts, [ca. 1920].
- Hewes, Amy, 1877-. A study of
families in three generations by members of the class in
statistics of the department of economics and sociology,
Mount Holyoke College : Ts, 1920.
- Immigration Restriction League.
Friendly and hostile newspapers : Ts, [1916], with Ms
annotations up to 1920.
- Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography.
List of references on American immigration
including Americanization, effect of European war, etc. :
Tss (mimeographed), 1918 and 1920. Two different
lists.
- Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography.
List of references on Japanese in America : Ts
(mimeographed), 1920.
- Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography.
List of references on Slavs in America : Ts
(mimeographed), 1920.
- List of actual publicity received by the Far Eastern
Bureau : Ts (mostly carbon), [1920].
- National Committee for Constructive Immigration
Legislation. Immigration : past and
prospective : Ts (carbon), [1919 or 1920]. With charts in Ms
[by Hall].
- Resolutions on immigration restriction passed by various
societies : printed and Tss, 1901-1920.
- New York Times. The unpopular branch (editorial) : Ts
(carbon), 1921.
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B. Miscellaneous notes and memoranda, 1894-1921 and undated.
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(1071) Notes and memoranda, 1894-1904. 1 folder.
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(1072) Notes and memoranda, 1905-1907. 1 folder.
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(1073) Notes and memoranda, 1908-1909. 1 folder.
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(1074) Notes and memoranda, 1910-1911. 1 folder.
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(1075) Notes and memoranda, 1912-1913. 1 folder.
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(1076) Notes and memoranda, 1914-1916. 1 folder.
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(1077) Notes and memoranda, 1917-1921. 1 folder.
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(1078) Notes and memoranda, undated. 1 folder.
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C. Undated compositions.
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(1079) Compositions, A-G, undated 4 folders.
- Aldrich, Thomas Baily. Unguarded gates : Ts. A
poem, undated.
- Amendments to the Immigration Act of February 20, 1907,
recommended by the New York State Board of
Alienists : Ts (mimeographed), undated.
- American Federation of Labor.
Testimony to Congressional committee, undated.
- Carver, T. N. Composition on
immigration restriction : Ts, undated.
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(1080) Compositions, H, undated. 6 folders.
- Hall, Prescott F. (Prescott Farnsworth),
1868-1921. The
ethics of immigration restriction : Tss (2
versions), [190-].
- Hall, Prescott F. (Prescott Farnsworth),
1868-1921. Memorandum concerning recently
proposed methods for the restriction of immigration : Ms
(carbon), undated.
- Hall, Prescott F. (Prescott Farnsworth),
1868-1921. Notes headed "Attitudes" and
"Aphorisms" : AMs (mostly small slips), undated.
- Hall, Prescott F. (Prescott Farnsworth),
1868-1921. Notes headed "Birthrates" : AMs
notes on 5 x 8 cards, undated.
- Hall, Prescott F. (Prescott Farnsworth),
1868-1921. Notes headed "Eugenics" : AMs
notes on 5 x 8 cards, undated.
- Hall, Prescott F. (Prescott Farnsworth),
1868-1921. Rebuttal of arguments against
immigration restriction : AMs, undated. The first page is
missing.
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(1081) Compositions, I-L, undated. 5 folders.
- Immigration Restriction League.
Printed membership forms, pledge cards, receipts
for dues, undated.
- Immigration Restriction League.
Submission in favor of immigration restriction :
Ts (carbon), undated. The first two pages are missing.
- Lee, Joseph. Commissioner-General Sargent on
immigration misunderstands illiteracy test : Ts
, undated. 4 pp.; breaks off before the end.
- Lee, Joseph. Our hyphenated advisors :
Ms, undated.
- Lists of names and addresses : Tss, Mss : undated.
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(1082) Compositions, M-Z, undated. 6 folders.
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The medical examination of our
immigrants : Ts (carbon), undated.
- Names and addresses : index cards, undated.
- National Committee for Constructive Immigration
Legislation. Constructive Immigration
legislation : Ts, undated.
- Petition to Congress by local labor unions in favor of a
reading test for immigrants : Ts (original and carbon),
undated. A list of local union branches.
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Ye immigrant : Ms,
undated. A poem; in the hand of
Prescott F. Hall.
- Safford, Moses Victor? Report? on placing medical officers
abroad to examine immigrants, undated.
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Series: V. Clippings, 1896-1921 and undated.
Includes folders of loose clippings concerning
immigration, an index/digest to some IRL clippings, and bound volumes of
clippings.
Arrangement: Arranged by date, with bound books at end.
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(1083) Clippings, before 1900. 1 folder.
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(1084) Clippings, 1900-1902. 1 folder.
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(1086) Clippings digest, 1907-1913. 1 folder.
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(1087) Clippings, 1910-1912. 1 folder.
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(1088) Clippings, 1913. 1 folder.
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(1089) Clippings, 1914. 1 folder.
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(1090) Clippings, 1915. 1 folder.
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(1091) Clippings, 1916. 1 folder.
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(1092) Clippings, 1917-1919. 1 folder.
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(1093) Clippings, 1920. 2 folders.
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(1094) Clippings, 1921 Jan.-Mar. 1 folder.
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(1095) Clippings, 1921 Apr. 1 folder.
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(1096) Clippings, 1921 May 1-10. 1 folder.
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(1097) Clippings, 1921 May 11-19. 1 folder.
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(1098) Clippings, 1921 May 20-31. 1 folder.
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(1099) Clippings, 1921 June 1-10. 1 folder.
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(1100) Clippings, 1921 June 11-19. 1 folder.
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(1101) Clippings, 1921 June 20-31. 1 folder.
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(1102) Clippings, 1921 July. 1 folder.
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(1103) Clippings, 1921 Aug. 1 folder.
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(1104) Clippings, 1921 Sept. 1-10. 1 folder.
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(1105) Clippings, 1921 Sept. 11-19. 1 folder.
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(1106) Clippings, 1921 Sept. 20-30. 1 folder.
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(1107) Clippings, 1921 Oct. 1-15. 1 folder.
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(1108) Clippings, 1921 Oct. 16-31. 1 folder.
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(1109) Clippings, undated. 1 folder.
- MS [Shelved with (1054)v.1] (1110) Bound clippings scrapbook, 1901-1903 (Dec.
1901-Jan. 1903). 1 v. 32 x 27 cm.
See also item (1085).
- MS (1110a) Bound clippings books on immigration, 1894-1920. 10 v. in 5 boxes. 22 x 18 cm.
This series belonged to P.F. Hall.
Vol. 5 (1898-1902) was missing when tranferred from Widener Library in
March 2000.
r.f.: XP 9979 (formerly US 10587.29).
- MS (1110b) Bound clippings books on immigration, 1891-1909. 4 v. in 2 cases 26 x 21 cm. (largest
in series)
This series of clippings books belonged to Robert DeCourcy Ward, one of
the founders of the IRL.
r.f: XP 9979 (formerly US 10587.20.15, US 10587.20.20, US 10587.20.25, US
10587.20.30.
- MS [Shelved with (1136a)] (1110c) Bound clippings book on immigration, 1901-1907. 1 v. 30 x 24 cm.
This clippings book belonged to Robert DeCourcy Ward, one of the founders
of the IRL.
r.f: XP 9979 (formerly US 10587.20.35).
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Series: VI. Printed materials relating to immigration.
This series consists of printed materials on immigration by outside
organizations and individuals. Materials include statements of purpose,
meetings proceedings, and articles by the National Liberal Immigration
League (an anti-restriction League), as well as speeches, committee lists,
bills, and other publications of the United States Government. There are a
few items published by the Canadian and British governments.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by author or title (item 1136) if no author.
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(1111) A. 15 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- The American.
- American Academy of Medicine Press.
- American Academy of Political and Social Science.
- Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science.
- American Breeders Association.
- American Committee of Justice.
- American Defense Society, Inc.
- American Federation of Labor.
- American Genetic Association.
- American Jewish Committee.
- American Tract Society.
- The Anti-Bolshevist.
- Associated Charities of Boston.
- Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives.
- Abraham Lincoln Association.
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(1112) B. 12 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- Ballou, W. H.
- Bartlett, J. Gardner.
- Behar, Nissim.
- Blaustein, David.
- Bonaparte, Charles J.
- Boston Society for the Protection of Italian Immigrants.
- Braun, Marcus and John L. Burnett.
- Brazzà, Countess di, b. 1862.
- Bressler, David M.
- Bryce, Peter H.
- Buchanan, Frank.
- Bremen (Germany). Das Nachweilungs Bureau fur Auswanderer.
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(1113) C. 11 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- California Liberals Committee.
- Canada. Department of Immigration and Colonization.
- Canada. Department of the Interior.
- Canada. Parliament. House of Commons.
- Canada. Parliament. Senate.
- Canada. Superintendent of Immigration.
- Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Experimental
Evolution.
- Cathay, Sam.
- Charity Organization Society of the City of New York.
- Crafts, Leo M.
- Presidents, superintendents and other officials of southern
railways.
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(1114) D. 2 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- Dawes, Spencer Lyman.
- Dudley, Helena S. and Vida D. Scudder.
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(1115) E. 8 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- East, E. M.
- Eastman, P. R.
- Educational Alliance.
- Edwards, Percy L.
- Eliot, Charles William.
- Eugenics Education Society.
- Eugenics Record Office.
- Endicott, William C., Jr.
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(1116) F. 8 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- Farmers Educational and Co-operative Union of America.
- Farmers' National Congress of the United States.
- Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, with
American Council of the World Alliance for Promoting
International Friendship through the Churches.
- Fishberg, Maurice.
- Flowers, Montaville.
- Foerster, Robert F.
- Fosdick, Raymond B.
- Foreign Emigrant Society.
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(1117) G. 9 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- Garrison, William Lloyd.
- Gilder, Richard Watson.
- Great Britain. Board of Trade.
- Great Britain. Home Office.
- Great Britain. Parliament.
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Alien Immigration.
- Guardians of Liberty.
- Gulick, Sidney L.
- Gardner, Augustus P.
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(1118) H. 6 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- Harper, Roland M.
- Hall, Prescott F.
- Hays, Willet M.
- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America. Jewish
Immigration.
- Heron, David.
- Home Protective League.
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(1119) I. 6 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- Immigration Protective League.
- Immigration Regulation League.
- Industrial Removal Office.
- International Education Conference.
- Inter-racial Council.
- Ireland, Alleyne.
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(1120) J. 3 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- Japanese Association of America.
- John Crerar Library.
- Junior Order United American Mechanics, with Committee on
National Legislation
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(1121) K. 4 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- Kane Labor League.
- Kawakami, K. K.
- Knights of Columbus.
- Knights of Labor.
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(1122) L. 6 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- Laughlin, Harry H.
- League for Constructive Immigration Legislation.
- Lee, Joseph.
- Lowell, Percival.
- Lodge, Henry Cabot.
- Lotos Club of New York.
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(1123) M. 1 folder.
Includes the following authors:
- MacCaughey, Vaughan.
- Massachusetts. Bureau of Statistics of Labor.
- Massachusetts. Department of Labor and Industries. Division of
Statistics.
- Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives.
- Massachusetts. General Court. Senate.
- Massachusetts Immigration Commission.
- Massachusetts. State Board of Insanity.
- Maxim, Hudson.
- McClatchy, Valentine Stuart.
- Mudge, G. P.
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(1124) N- National Committee. 6 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- National Americanization Committee.
- National Anti-Asiatic Immigration League of the United States.
- National Association of Officials of Bureaus of Labor
Statistics.
- National Civic Federation Review.
- National Committee for Constructive Immigration Legislation.
- National Committee for the Co-ordination of Patriotic and
Civic Work.
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(1125) National Liberal Immigration League 5 folders.
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(1126) National Reform - N (end). 13 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- National Reform Association.
- National Republican Club, Inc.
- New Immigrants' Protective League.
- New York. Board of Trade and Transportation.
- New York. Department of Labor. Bureau of Industries and
Immigration.
- New York Labor Bulletin.
- New York News Bureau.
- New York (State). State Board of Charities.
- New York (State). Prison Dept.
- North American Civic League for Immigrants.
- Norton, Eliot.
- New York (State). Chamber of Commerce.
- National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
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(1127) O. 1 folder.
Includes the following author:
- Order of United American Mechanics.
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(1128) P-Q. 9 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- Patriotic Order Sons of America. National Legislative
Committee.
- Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.
- Pennsylvania. State Council. Order of Independent Americans
(?)
- Philadelphia County Federation of Protestant Patriotic
Fraternities and Protestant Church Organizations.
- The Platform.
- Powers, Caleb.
- Publicity Bureau Concerning Activities of Roman Catholic
Rulers Against the People's Rule (?).
- Quackenbos, Mary Grace.
- Patten, Jame Horace.
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(1129) R. 8 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- Redfield, Casper L.
- Republican Club of Massachusetts.
- Republican National Committee.
- Rhode Island. Board of State Charities and Corrections.
- Roberts, Kenneth L.
- Roosevelt, Theodore.
- Ross, E.A.
- Russian National Society.
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(1130) S. 10 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- Safford, M. Victor.
- Salmon, Thomas W.
- Second International Congress of Eugenics. 1921.
- Senner, J. H.
- Shima, George.
- The Silhouette.
- Singh, Saint Nihal.
- Social and Industrial Lyceum Bureau.
- Society for the Protection of Italian Immigrants.
- Sweeney, Walter C.
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(1131) U - United States. Bureau. 4 folders
Includes the following authors:
- United Hebrew Charities of the City of New York.
- United Polish Organizations of the United States of North
America. Polish Committee of National Defense.
- United States. Bureau of Immigration.
- United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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(1132) United States. Congress. 18 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- United States. Congress. (54th: 1895-1897).
- United States. Congress. (60th: 1907-1909).
- United States. Congress. (61st: 1909-1911).
- United States. Congress. (62nd: 1911-1913).
- United States. Congress. (63rd: 1913-1915).
- United States. Congress. (64th: 1915-1917).
- United States. Congress. (65th: 1917-1919).
- United States. Congress. (66th: 1919-1921).
- United States. Congress. (67th: 1921-1923).
- United States. Congress. Congressional Record. 57th. 1st
session. 1902.
- United States. Congress. Congressional Record. 62nd. 1912.
- United States. Congress. Congressional Record. 63rd. 1914.
- United States. Congress. Congressional Record. 65th. 2nd
session. 1918.
- United States. Congress. Congressional Record. 66th. 2nd and
3rd sessions. 1919-1921.
- United States. Congress. Congressional Record. 67th. 1st
session. 1921.
- United States. Congress. House of Representatives.
- United States. Congress. (52th).
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(1133) United States. Dept.- U (end). 8 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- United States. Dept. of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of
Immigration.
- United States. Dept. of Commerce and Labor. Office of the
Solicitor.
- United States. Dept. of Commerce and Labor. U.S. Immigration
Service. Office of Commissioner of Immigration.
- United States. Dept. of Interior. Bureau of Education.
- United States. Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Immigration.
- United States. Dept. of Labor. Commissioner General of
Immigration.
- United States. Immigration Commission
- University of Wisconsin. Extension Division.
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(1134) V. 1 folder.
Includes the following author:
-
(1135) W. 9 folders.
Includes the following authors:
- Waldman, Morris D.
- Ward, Robert DeCourcy.
- Welsh, F.R.
- Wheelwright, William D.
- Williams, William.
- Wills, H. E.
- Woodruff, Charles E.
- Woods, Frederick Adams.
- Willcox, Walter F.
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(1136) Printed materials by title. 21 folders.
Includes the following titles:
- The Church of Rome In American Politics.
- The Demand for The Illiteracy Test Contained in Senate Bill
4403.
- Dillingham-Burnett Bill.
- English Language NOT Required...
- Fact and Theory of Expansion.
- Further Restriction of Immigration.
- Illiterate Immigrants by Race or People.
- Opposition of the Foreign Steamship Companies to Needed
Immigration Restriction.
- Postcards, blank, [possibly issued by the IRL].
- Racial Differences in Mortality.
- Religious and Racial Phase of the Immigration Bill...Who is
E.L. Scharf and Others?
- Resolution adopted by Mass Meeting in Cooper Union.With
Vice-Presidents of the Mass-Meeting, held at Cooper
Union...December 6th, 1906.
- Roll Call in the House and Senate by States on the Immigration
Bill.
- Roll Call in the House on the Immigration Bill H.R. 6060
February 4, 1914.
- Sample records--actual cases with names omitted--of cases of
sterilization...
- The Waters.
- Resolution in favor of Senate Immigration Bill from North
Carolina, 1912?
- The press on the veto and the bill, 1913.
- Immigration into the United States, 1918.
- Brief in favor of Senate bill 4403.
- White American.
- MS [Shelved with (1110c)] (1136a) United States. Congress. Miscellaneous
documents relating to immigration from the 54th Congress : print,
1895-1897. 1 v. 28 x 23 cm.
Includes printed versions of: bills submitted to and speeches from the
House of Representatives and the Senate, clippings, and the
Congressional Record 1896-1897. Also includes Tss by the IRL concerning
the voting in both chambers.
r.f. XP 9979 (formerly US 10587.25.3).
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Series: VII. Printed materials by the IRL.
The materials authored by the IRL include the League's constitution,
membership forms, reports, announcements, and published articles. Some
materials may be filed under the author's name in series VI above.
See items (1046-1049), for IRL circular letter forms.
See also HOLLIS database for printed materials located in other Harvard
collections.
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A. IRL administrative materials
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(1137) Announcements to members, 1895-1896. 1 folder.
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(1138) Annual reports, 1894-1903. 1 folder.
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(1139) Circular letters to members, 1895-1899 and undated. 1 folder.
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(1139a) Committee? minutes on percentage bill discussion, undated. 1 folder.
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(1140) List of officers and committee members and "objects of the
League", undated. 1 folder.
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(1140a) List of previous members of IRL taken from a card catalogue
in the PF Hall collection, Harvard College Library : Ts, 1927. 1 folder.
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(1141) Membership application, undated. 1 folder.
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(1142) Officer's list for the Immigration League of NY, undated. 1 folder.
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(1143) Proposed legislation, various dates. 1 folder.
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B. IRL numbered publications
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(1144) No. 5: What of the future? 1 folder.
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(1145) No. 6: Who are you?, [1909?] 1 folder.
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(1145a) No. 33: Restriction of immigration by Francis A. Walker. 1 folder.
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(1146) No. 35: Demand of American labor for restriction of
immigration and an illiteracy test for immigrants. 1 folder.
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(1147) No. 48: General immigration statistics, [1907?]1 folder.
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(1148) No. 49: Immigration figures for 1907. 1 folder.
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(1149) No. 51: Eugenics, ethics and immigration, by Prescott F.
Hall. 1 folder.
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(1150) No. 54: Immigration figures for 1909. 1 folder.
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(1152) No. 60: Immigration figures for 1912. 1 folder.
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(1153) No. 61: The crisis in our immigration policy, 1913. 1 folder.
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(1154) No. 62: Immigration figures for 1913. 1 folder.
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(1156) No. 65: Immigration figures for 1915. 1 folder.
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(1157) No. 68: Immigration figures for 1917. 1 folder.
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(1158) No. 70: Immigration figures for 1918. 1 folder.
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(1159) No. 71: Immigration restriction and world eugenics, by
Prescott F. Hall, [1919?]. 1 folder.
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C. Far Eastern Bureau Reports.
- MS (1160) Far Eastern Bureau, New York. Monthly
reports : Tss (carbon), clippings, printed pamphlets, 1915 Jan.-June. 5 v. 29 x 23 cm.
Bureau run by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks (director)
and Patrick Gallagher (editor) that sponsored
publicity work to change the American newspaper press editor's
attitudes towards the "immigration problem."
Includes letters, reports, clippings, articles, etc... regarding
their campaign.
r. f.: XP 9979 (formerly US 10587.29.10).
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