Immigration: An American Story

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• Henry Gannett, “Proportion of Foreign Born to Total Population of the United States at the Twelfth Census 1900,” Statistical Atlas, Twelfth Census of the United States, Taken in the Year 1900, Washington DC, 1903 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC09668) 
• US Constitution, printed by Dunlap & Claypoole, Philadelphia, PA, September 17, 1787, page 2 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC03585)
• Dancers at the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade in Chicago, Illinois, March 17, 2018 (Roberto Galan / Shutterstock.com)
• West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn, New York, August 1, 2014 (A. Katz / Shutterstock.com)
• 84th annual Greek Independence Day Parade in New York, New York, March 29, 2015 (A. Katz/ Shutterstock.com)
• Chinese dragon dance at the 74th Camellia Festival Parade in Los Angeles, California, February 24, 2018 (Kit Leong / Shutterstock.com) 

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• Letter from Christopher Columbus to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain (in Latin), Rome, 1493 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLCO1427)
• Quote from Christopher Columbus
• “Landing of Columbus [in 1492)” engraving by H. B. Hall, based on a painting by John Vanderlyn, printed by Martin, Johnson & Co., New York, NY, 1856 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC08878.0001)
• Letter from Francisco García de Loaysa to Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, 1540 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLCO4883)
• Letter from Sebastian Brandt to Henry Hovener, January 13, 1622 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC00708)
• “Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae,” by Nicholas Visscher the Elder. Amsterdam, 1656, reprinted 1682 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLCO3582) 

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• Receipt for land purchased from the Six Nations by the Penn family for $10,000, July 28, 1769 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC02548)
• “Californie et du Nouveau Mexique,” map by Nicolas de Fer, 1700 (Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library, Claremont, California)
• Letter from Fernando de Rivera y Moncada to Antonio Bucareli y Ursua, October 20, 1776 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC06287.08)
• Quote from Fernande de Rivera y Moncada
• List by Robert Livingston of imports from the West Indies, October 1725 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC03107.01732)
• Slave shackles intended for a child, ca. 1800 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLCO6151)
• Cargo plan for the slave ship Brookes, printed in The History of the Rise, Progress, & Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament by Thomas Clarkson, Vol. II, London, 1808 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC05965) 

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• “Map of the United States of America with Its Territories & Districts,” printed by B. B. Barber and A. Willard, Hartford, Conn., 1835 (New York Public Library)
• Broadside supporting the Know-Nothing party, September 1, 1857 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLCO9342)
• A German artillery unit, photograph by Mathew Brady, Winter 1861 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC05111.01.0453)
• Letter of reference from Lajos Kossuth for Alexis Ludvigh, December 3, 1859 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC02869.01)
• “Heading of east portal Tunnel No. 8,” photograph by Alfred A. Hart depicting a Chinese worker for the Central Pacific Railroad in California, ca. 1865–1869 (Library of Congress)
• “Joining of the rails at Promontory Point,” official photograph by Andrew J. Russell of the “Golden Spike” ceremony marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, Promontory Summit, Utah, May 10, 1869 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLCO4481.01) 

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• Chinatown Declared a Nuisance! published by the Workingmen’s Party of California, 1880 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLCO6232.03)
• The Tape Family, 1884 (From the Alisa J. Kim Collection)
• Immigrants seated on long benches, Main Hall, US Immigration Station, Ellis Island, New York, ca. 1907–1912 (New York Public Library)
• “A group of immigrants, most wearing fezzes, surrounding a large vessel which is decorated with the star and crescent of . . . the Ottoman Turks,” photograph by William Williams, Ellis Island, New York, ca. 1902-1913 (New York Public Library)
• View of Essex and Hester Streets in New York City, published by Brown Brothers, New York, NY, 1907 (New York Public Library) 

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• Examining Passengers aboard ships at Angel Island, California, Public Health Service Historical Photograph File, 1931 (National Archives)
• “Justice the Issue! Shall Sacco and Vanzetti be Judicially Murdered?” broadside published by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, ca. July 1927 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC05712.01)
• “Sometimes I tell my children that I would like to go to Mexico, but they tell me ‘We don’t want to go, we belong here.’”
• Mexican mother in California. Photograph and caption by Dorothea Lange, June 1935 (Library of Congress)
• Japanese internment broadside, May 3, 1942 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC06360)
• Japanese-Americans transferring from train to bus at Lone Pine, California, bound for the war relocation authority center at Manzanar, photograph attributed to Clem Albers, US War Relocation Authority, April 1942 (Library of Congress) 

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• Vietnamese refugees awaiting rescue from their fishing boat after eight days at sea. From the Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, May 15, 1984 (National Archives)
• Lester Holmes and family (Private Collection)
• Quote from Lester Holmes
• Soussan Semerciyan, ca. 1983 (Private Collection)
• Quote from Soussan Semerciyan
• Passport photo of V. Venugopal (Private Collection)
• Passport photo of Lakshmi Venugopal (Private Collection)
• Quote from V. Venugopal
• Activists rallying in support of the immigrant community, Portland, Oregon, September 5, 2017 (Diego G Diaz /Shutterstock.com)