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.
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.
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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(1058) Compositions, 1905. 6 folders.
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Aliens Act, 1905 (5 Edw. 7, cap. 13) : Ts (carbon), 1905.
- Extracts from reports of the Commissioner-General of Immigration : Tss, [ca.
1905].
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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].
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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.
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(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.
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(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?
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(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].
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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:
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(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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