North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
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Description:
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories (IMLD) provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. Much of the material is previously unpublished. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, indexed and searchable for the first time, are included.
The materials begin around 1840 and extend to the present, focusing heavily on the period from 1920 to 1980.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories provides perspectives both on North America and on the immigrants' countries of origin.
Coverage
- 1840-1980
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- Citations? No
- Abstracts? No
- Full Text? Yes
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- Varies
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