[Japanese American] [California] Japanese American family photograph archive, 1950s, documenting everyday life in Southern California during the decade following the forced wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans under Executive Order 9066. The photographs record domestic routines, family celebrations, and recreational outings among a Nisei and Sansei generation rebuilding community life after.....
Japanese American communities photographed across the twentieth century document the transformation of Japanese American identity from immigrant settlement and economic success to wartime incarceration and later postwar memory. Eleven press photographs dating from 1918 through the late twentieth century depict Japanese immigrants, Japanese American families, and individuals whose lives were.....
[Cuba] [Chinese] [Labor] Cuban indentured servant contract documenting the state administration of Chinese indenture in eastern Cuba in January 1868, with direct evidence of how colonial authorities, private employers, and local officials formalized the re-contracting of Chinese laborers under the legal framework established after the 1860 royal decree regulating Asian.....
[Cuba] [Chinese] [Labor] Cuban indentured servant contract documenting the state administration of Chinese indenture in western Cuba, February 1867, records the municipal enforcement of Cuban contract labor rules for Asian migrants under the post 1860 regulatory system that governed wages, discipline, illness, food, and flight. Issued on a printed form.....
[Cuban Refugees] [Caravan of Sorrow] Miami Herald press photograph archive, 1960 to 1966, documents Cuban exile political organizing, refugee displacement, and United States federal response in South Florida across the critical period between the Cuban Revolution and the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966. The archive follows a defined sequence of.....
[Cuba] [Chinese] [Labor] Cuban indentured servant contract documenting the state administration of Chinese indenture in western Cuba, July 1870, records the municipal enforcement of Cuban contract labor rules for Asian migrants under the post 1860 regulatory system that governed wages, discipline, illness, food, and flight. The form cites the Real.....
Gentile, Maria. The Italian Cook Book: The Art of Eating Well (1919) documents the early transmission of Italian culinary practice into American domestic life following mass Italian immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Written in English with bilingual Italian headings, the work presents Italian cuisine to an.....
U.S. Department of State. Report of the Secretary of State…relative to the coolie trade (1856) and Asiatic Coolie Trade, Message from the President of the United States (1861) document official correspondence, inspections, and policy concerns surrounding the transnational transport and exploitation of Chinese laborers in the mid-nineteenth century. These reports.....
Turn-of-the-century Japan photo archive documenting foreign commercial travel, oil and mining activity, rural labor, and domestic life during the late Meiji era, when Japan was rapidly building railways, mines, refineries, modern ports, and industrial companies after the 1868 Meiji Restoration. The material appears connected to a Western man and his.....
Chinese textile salvage and export labor photographs, circa 1890s-1900s, document rag sorting and export trade labor in Late Qing dynasty to early Republican China. The images display laborers involved in the collection, sorting, disinfection, grading, and bundling of textile waste at a moment when recycled cloth served as a critical.....
Chávez, César (founder). El Malcriado: The Official Voice of the United Farmworkers (1969–1973) documents the organizing strategies, political demands, and cultural expression of the United Farm Workers during the height of the Chicano Movement and farm labor struggle in California. Published in Delano as a bilingual labor newspaper, the periodical.....
Chavez, Cesar. Press photo archive, 1968–1990s, documenting leadership within the United Farm Workers and the broader Chicano labor movement across multiple decades of activism. These images trace Chavez’s role in organizing farmworkers during and after the Delano Grape Strike, his use of nonviolent protest including fasting, and his later advocacy.....
Puttalam labor correspondence dated October 1922 records coercion within British Ceylon’s colonial coolie labor system, where maistries and “coolie masters” controlled the recruitment and movement of South Indian migrant workers. One letter states that “your monthly Coolie Masteries” came to No. 44, 5th Street “with stick,” abused the writers, and.....
San Francisco Chinatown photo archive, group of 21 postcards dating from the early 1900s to the 1920s, documenting Chinese American community life under the legal and social constraints of the Chinese Exclusion era. The material captures street scenes, architecture, and daily activity within Chinatown during a period when federal immigration.....
Labor Press photo archive documenting the labor consequences of NAFTA through farm work, economic dislocation, and anti trade protest in the 1990s. The archive documents agricultural labor, rural economies, and public resistance to free trade policy through newsroom photographs showing how NAFTA was understood not only as an international trade.....
Archive of German-language correspondence from a Württemberg family to "Uncle" Fred Mertz, a German immigrant in Newark, New Jersey, c. 1923 to 1940, with newspaper clippings preserved by the recipient and two English-language Reich propaganda leaflets that reached the household during the Phoney War. The three substantive letters span three.....
Gold Star Sausage Company press photo archive documenting immigrant factory labor inside an American sausage manufacturing plant during the 1970s, with particular emphasis on Yugoslavian workers engaged in high-volume industrial food production. Handwritten notes on the versos identify employees wrapping tamales, loading wieners into smokehouses, packing finished products into boxes.....
[Latinx, Chicano, Mexico] [Social Activist] United Farm Workers. Historic 1970s poster for a benefit concert and dinner in order to fundraise for the United Farm Workers (UFW) at the St. Martin House in Madison, Wisconsin. Poster is red and black and features a detailed illustration of Emilio Zapata. 17" x......
[Chinese-American] Chung Sai Yat Po (中西日報). Vol. 50, No. 154. San Francisco, July 1, 1949. 8 pages. The first Chinese daily paper published outside of China, Chung Sai Yat Po was a vital voice for the Chinese American community throughout the first half of the 20th century. Founded in 1900.....
Chinese American newspaper issue, The Chinese Journal (美洲日報), published in New York on April 20, 1957, offering a rich portrait of midcentury Chinese American life, diasporic politics, and community organizing during the Cold War era. Issued by the Chinese American World Publishing Corporation and described as “the most progressive, intelligent.....
[Chicano] [Photography] Ballis, George. Basta! La Historia de Nuestra Lucha, or Enough! The Tale of Our Struggle. Delano: Farm Workers Press, 1966. First Edition Softcover. 72 pages. Measures 7.5" x 11". Contains roughly 75 black and white images of farmworkers and activists throughout. Ballis was an American photographer and activist.....
[Chicano] [Photography] Ballis, George. Basta! La Historia de Nuestra Lucha, or Enough! The Tale of Our Struggle. Delano: Farm Workers Press, 1966. First Edition Softcover. 72 pages. Measures 7.5" x 11". Contains roughly 75 black and white images of farmworkers and activists throughout. Ballis was an American photographer and activist.....
[Japanese-American] [Immigration] Archive of 3 books on Japanese immigration to the United States. All published in 1921, these works provide a comprehensive look at the racial, economic, and diplomatic tensions that defined Japanese immigration to the U.S. in the early 20th century, offering valuable historical insights into exclusionary policies and.....
[Japanese American] [Immigration] Senate, Immigrants in Industries (In Twenty-Five Parts) Part 25: Japanese and Other Immigrant Races in the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain States (In Three Volumes: Vol. II) Agriculture. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911. First edition. Original red cloth boards with gilt text on spine. 1031 pages. 8vo.....
Refugees at Work, Contributor: Eleanor Roosevelt, New York 1943 (1942) 2nd King's Crown. Preface by Eleanor Roosevelt. Compiled by: Sophia M. Robison, Columbia University Press, 1942. Study of new immigrants to US 1933 to 1941, numbers, nationality,location, sex, marital status, occupation, refugees as entrepreneurs. Octavo, 83pp., original wraps. Robison received.....
