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Drawing

Jane Addams of Hull House

Date: 
Description: Jane Addams holding an open book, surrounded by immigrant children.
Photograph

Swiss Passport Frontispiece

Date: 11 22 1848
Description: Frontispiece from a passport issued to Benedict Goldenberger from the canton of Aargau, Switzerland. He left Aargau in 1851, went to Massachussetts, and th...
Photograph

Passport of Susanne Hafner Goldfarb (#1)

Date: 1933
Description: Passport of Holocaust survivor, Susanne Hafner Goldfarb. (#1)
Photograph

Passport Photograph of Susanne Hafner Goldfarb (#2)

Date: 1933
Description: Passport photograph of Holocaust survivor, Susanne Hafner Goldfarb. (#2)
Document

"Wisconsin. What It Offers to the Immigrant" Report

Date: 1879
Description: Blue cover design of an official report entitled "Wisconsin. What It Offers to the Immigrant".
Manuscript

United States Citizenship Certificate

Date: 05 03 1804
Description: A certificate, signed by Joseph Wilson, that officially declares Matthias Varina a citizen of the United States of America.
Book or Pamphlet

Foreign Born Nationalities in Wisconsin, 1890 and 1910

Date: 1936
Description: Two maps of Wisconsin showing foreign born populations by county in 1890 and 1910.
Map or Atlas

Map of Nationalities in Wisconsin

Date: 1890
Description: A hand-colored map of Wisconsin showing distribution ethnic groups based on the 1885 state census. The various nationalities are color-coded and include: I...
Photograph

American Citizenship Course

Date: 03 29 1960
Description: Lt. Charles Grimminger Jr., Truax education officer, left, hands a Certificate of Training to Mrs. Midori Fugate of Japan and Romeo Downer from British Wes...
Photograph

American Citizenship Course

Date: 03 29 1960
Description: Wives of three airman based at Truax Field participate in an American citizenship course offered by the Truax Field Education Center. Left to right: Shie B...
Manuscript

Certificate of American Citizenship

Date: 07 17 1860
Description: A certificate granting United States citizenship to Frederick Anneke.
Map or Atlas

Where They Settled in Wisconsin

Date: 1982
Description: This map shows the location of major settlement regions for various ethnic groups. Includes a legend in lower left hand corner. Sparse settlement is repres...
Map or Atlas

The Rand-McNally New Commercial Atlas Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1913
Description: This map details automobile routes throughout the state and parts of Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, and Iowa. Cities, counties, Lake Michigan, Lake Superio...
Photograph

Alien Head-Tax Receipt

Date: 05 03 1926
Description: Border crossing papers issues by the U.S. Department of Labor for Jovita Prado who was going from Mexico to Milwaukee.
Poster

Remember! The Flag of Liberty, Support It!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of several people, presumably immigrants, standing in the foreground. Behind them is an American flag, and behind it is a ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

"Neue Rheinische Zeitung" Page One

Date: 05 19 1849
Description: Page one of the "Neue Rheinische Zeitung," a German newspaper published by Karl Marx in Cologne.
Print

Robert Aitken

Date: 
Description: Engraved lithographic portrait of Robert Aitken, a printer and the first to publish an English-language Bible in the United States, in 1782.

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