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AEI 2011: Immigration in New York
Primary Source Documents Available for Classroom Use

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*Please contact the repository listed with the captions below regarding obtaining high-resolution images

Photograph. Foreign Immigrants, Hamburg, early 20th century.
Local Identifier: 90-G-64-1.
Courtesy National Archives at New York City.



Photograph. Immigrants on a Ferry Boat Near Ellis Island.
National Archives Identifier: 594479. Courtesy National Archives at New York City.

Document. Passenger Arrival Manifest of the SS Nevada, January 2, 1892. Courtesy National Archives at New York City.




Illustration. “New York- The Club-Rooms of ‘The Christian Union for Chinese Work,’ in Brooklyn- Ladies Teaching Pupils the Alphabet.” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. 6 October 1883. Page 101. Courtesy Brooklyn Public Library.





Photograph. Castle Garden. Raoul Froger-Doudement. 1900.
Courtesy Brooklyn Public Library.

 


Document. Pages from Oleksii Balabas Russian passport. Translation of the first page (dated 20 November 1919): "Permission is given to Balabas Oleksii Isaakovich to travel outside the boundaries [of Russia] without the right to return to the territories of Russia." Courtesy Ukrainian Historical and Educational Center Archives of New Jersey.



Photograph. Portrait of Oleksii Balabas, Prague 1933. Front and back of photograph. Box 2, folder 5. Courtesy Ukrainian Historical and Educational Center Archives of New Jersey.

Atlas Excerpt. Hyde’s Miniature Atlas of the Borough of Brooklyn, Volume 1. 1912. Courtesy Brooklyn Public Library.





Document. Oleksii Balabas Hand Baggage Tag. 1 August 1950. Front and back. Box 1, folder 7. Courtesy Ukrainian Historical and Educational Center Archives of New Jersey.
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