Emigrants leaving Queenstown for New York / M.F.
Emigrants on dock. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1874 Sept. 26, pp. 796-797.
"When the Spring-time comes, gentle"--Indian! Polygamous barbarian: "M...
Top illustration satirizing "reported alliance between the Mormons and Indians". Bottom illustration shows Jewish refugees from Russia with their belongings, in a marine terminal in the United States. Illus. in... More
Arriving at Ellis Island. Photo by Bain News Service collection
George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - immigration to the United States, immigrants, Ellis Island, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Italian motion picture - movie film screenshot
Beppo, an Italian gondolier, is in love with Annette, who has another suitor, wealthy but much older. Her father gives Beppo a year to prove himself, so he emigrates to New York City, opens a shoeshine stand, a... More
The great fear of the period That Uncle Sam may be swallowed by foreig...
Print shows a one panel, three scene cartoon showing, in the first scene, an Irish man with the head of Uncle Sam in his mouth and a Chinese man with the feet of Uncle Sam in his mouth, in the second scene they... More
The lament of the Irish emigrant - a ballad - poetry by the hon. Mrs. ...
Sheet music cover shows a man wearing top hat with bag and walking stick leaning on a stile. Sixth edition. Printed below image: The music composed and most cordially dedicated to Mrs. Isaac McGaw, of New York... More
Emigrants [i.e. immigrants] landing at Ellis Island /
"Shows a large open barge loaded with people of every nationality, who have just arrived from Europe, disembarking at Ellis Island, N.Y. A most interesting and typical scene. Length 140 feet"-Edison films catal... More
Theodore Roosevelt - "Captains courageous" / Keppler., Political Carto...
Illustration shows President Theodore Roosevelt firing a cannon to send a life-line to a ship in distress on rough seas with dark clouds labeled "Prejudice" forming overhead; the rope spells out the word "Toler... More
Farewell to home--emigrants bound for England and America--on steamer ...
No. 100-899. Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Arrival of emigrants [i.e. immigrants], Ellis Island /
Depicts scenes at the Immigration Depot and a nearby dock on Ellis Island. Appears to show, first, a group of immigrants lined up to board a vessel leaving the island, then another group arriving at the island ... More
Emigrants on the steerage deck of FRIEDRICH DER GROSSE
Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). 121-76.
[Physicians examining a group of Jewish immigrants]
Photograph shows immigrants gathered in small room, two with shirts off being examined by physicians; eye chart written in Hebrew hangs on wall. No. 97332. Devised title on verso: Physicians examining a group o... More
Sigmund Freud Papers: Family Papers, 1851-1978; Correspondence with Si...
Picryl description: Public domain manuscript page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Emigrants crossing the plains / F.O.C. Darley, fecit ; H.B. Hall, Jr. ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, horses, horse riding, farm animals, farmers, livestock, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
The lament of the Irish emigrant - a ballad / W. Sharp, del. ; printed...
Sheet music cover shows a man wearing a top hat with sack and walking stick leaning on a stile. Reference copy may be in LOT 7010. Printed below image: The music composed and most cordially dedicated to Mrs. Is... More
[Recently arrived persons, Ellis Island, N.Y.]
Photograph shows a large crowd of newly arrived emigrants gathered outside main building. No. 96688.
Emigrants' room, C. & N.W. Ry. [Chicago and North Western Railway stat...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a public building, auditorium, hall, commons, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Immigrants from PRINZESS IRENE boarding ferry to take them to Ellis Is...
Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
[New York City. Facade of Russian Immigrant home. 1913.]
Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: NY NYC Bldgs; Russians in US; Shelf.
Sigmund Freud Papers: General Correspondence, 1871-1996; Sachs, Hanns;...
Picryl description: Public domain manuscript page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
New York - Welcome to the land of freedom - An ocean steamer passing t...
Immigrants on deck of steamer "Germanic." Reference copy in LOT 7010. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1887 July 2, pp. 324-325.
New York - Welcome to the land of freedom - An ocean steamer passing t...
Immigrants on deck of steamer "Germanic." Reference copy in LOT 7010. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1887 July 2, pp. 324-325.
Emigration--Detailing the progress and vicissitudes of an emigrant / C...
A 15-panel narrative illustrating the difficulties faced by English emigrants getting to, and after arriving in, North America, including snakes, alligators, disease, cannibals, homesickness, and poverty.
Emigration--Detailing the progress and vicissitudes of an emigrant / C...
A 15-panel narrative illustrating the difficulties faced by English emigrants getting to, and after arriving in, North America, including snakes, alligators, disease, cannibals, homesickness, and poverty.
To all who travel by the / lith. by J.M.W. Jones S. & P. Co.
Print showing, around the outer rim of a horseshoe, immigrants from many nations arriving by steamship, a man with a mule pulling a canal boat, two bandits on horseback robbing travelers, and within the horsesh... More
To all who travel by the / lith. by J.M.W. Jones S. & P. Co.
Print showing, around the outer rim of a horseshoe, immigrants from many nations arriving by steamship, a man with a mule pulling a canal boat, two bandits on horseback robbing travelers, and within the horsesh... More
American citizens! We appeal to you in all calmness. Is it not time to...
An advertisement announcing publication of the "American Citizen," a short-lived nativist newspaper. The broadside is illustrated with an elaborate and venomous anti-Catholic scene. At left a temple of Liberty ... More
A Polish emigrant boarding ship - he carries trunk on his shoulders
Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Photo by George G. Bain. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Ellis Island, N.Y. - one of the "1000 marriageable girls" on the "Balt...
Picryl description: Public domain image of Ellis Island, New York harbor, immigrants, immigration, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Immigrants just arrived, awaiting examination, Ellis Island, New York ...
Copyright [by] Underwood & Underwood. On mount: Underwood & Underwood, New York & Ottawa, Kas., Works, Arlington, N.J. No. 19 and 5288. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.
Immigrants just arrived, awaiting examination, Ellis Island, New York ...
Copyright [by] Underwood & Underwood. On mount: Underwood & Underwood, New York & Ottawa, Kas., Works, Arlington, N.J. No. 19 and 5288. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.
Sigmund Freud Papers: Subject File, 1856-1988; Newspaper and magazine ...
Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Emigrant train, Strawberry Valley, going east
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 625. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and ... More
Where both platforms agree--no vote--no use to either party / J.A. Wal...
Illustration shows James Garfield and Winfield S. Hancock nailing a Chinese man between two "Anti-Chinese" boards labeled "Republican Plank" and "Democratic Plank". Illus. in: Puck, v. 7, no. 175 (1880 July 14... More
Emigrants crossing the plains / F.O.C. Darley, fecit ; H.B. Hall, Jr. ...
Public domain image of horse riding, cavalry, military, war, 17th, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. Priezd Evreev iz Bukhary v g. Kazalinsk
Photograph shows the arrival of Jews from Bukhara to the city of Kazalinsk (Qazaly). Man standing with loaded camels in front of building. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' étnograficheskaia︢: ..., 1871-1... More
Caravan of emigrants for California (Crossing the great American deser...
Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Massachusetts hoar, outwitted, or hopping-John, and Johnny-cake, f...
An imaginative but puzzling commentary on sectional tensions over slavery between New England abolitionists and southern agrarian slaveholders. In his sweeping satire the artist also portrays a considerable hos... More
From the old to the new world - German emigrants for New York embarkin...
Print shows German immigrants boarding a ship for America in the late 19th century. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1874 Nov. 7, pp. 916-917.
Citizens for trouble-making only / Keppler.
Print shows Columbia standing with two "troublemakers" labeled "Cuban Filibuster" and "Irish Agitator" hiding behind her skirt; they are holding papers that state "Certificate of U.S. Citizenship". Illus. from... More
[Motor car, Canadian Government Colonization Co.]
Picryl description: Public domain image related to Wild West, western, cowboys, no copyright restrictions image.
Landing at Ellis Island New York
Emigrants coming up the board-walk from the barge, which has taken them off the steamship company's docks, and transported them to Ellis Island. The big building in the background is the new hospital just opene... More
Boat unloading immigrants at Ellis Island, New York harbor
Stereograph showing immigrants arriving at Ellis Island. Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sigmund Freud Papers: General Correspondence, 1871-1996; Eitingon, M.;...
Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Physical examination of female immigrants at Ellis Island, New York C...
J157103 U.S. Copyright Office. No. U-97322. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Physical examination of female immigrants at Ellis Island, New York C...
J157103 U.S. Copyright Office. No. U-97322. Public domain photograph of New York, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Salzburgische emigranten. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Illustration showing a man and a woman, Lutheran religious refugees, fleeing Salzburg, Austria.
Auswanderer-karte und wegweiser nach Nordamerika.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
At the entrance of the new world
Photograph shows a male immigrant standing in front of door with all his posessions. Copyright 1900 by R. F. Turnbull, N.Y.
Part of 1000 marriageable women on "Baltic"
Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Exchanging news - two of the smaller members of the Greek colony which...
Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
An important European mission to investigate American immigration cond...
Also available in digital form.
An important European mission to investigate American immigration cond...
Also available in digital form.
Where the blame lies / Hamilton.
Cartoon shows a man holding a top hat in one hand and gesturing toward horde of arriving immigrants labeled "German socialist," "Russian anarchist," "Polish vagabond," "Italian brigand," "English convict," "Iri... More
[Four immigrants and their belongings, on a dock, looking out over the...
J174825 U.S. Copyright Office. U-146001. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph - immigration to the United States, immigrants, Ellis Island, free to use, no copyright restrictions image ... More
Chinese immigrants at the San Francisco custom-house / P. Frenzeny.
Customs officers inspecting belongings of Chinese immigrants as others enter the room from ship; with insert of Chinese on wagon. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1877 Feb. 3, p. 81.
The anti-Chinese wall--The American wall goes up as the Chinese origin...
A cartoon showing laborers, among whom are Irishmen, an African American, a Civil War veteran, Italian, Frenchman, and a Jew, building a wall against the Chinese. Congressional mortar is used to mount blocks of... More
The balance of trade with Great Britain seems to be still against us--...
Page of advertisements with cartoon showing people on steamship carrying "Poor house from Galway." Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 27, 1883 April 28, p. 272.
Immigrants on deck of S.S. "Amerika"
Photograph shows immigrant men on crowded upper deck of ship. Copyright 1907 by H.C. White Co. Reference copy in: SSF - Emigration and Immigration.
Two emigrants on the seashore New York
Photograph shows two emigrants on a dock facing water, Ellis Island, N.Y.
Immigrants waiting to be transferred, Ellis Island, October 30, 1912
J174749 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph - immigration to the United States, immigrants, Ellis Island, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Barges [i.e., ferry boats] at Ellis Island
Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: NY NYC Ellis Island; Ferries; Shelf.
Russian family on ORBITA. Photo by Bain News Service collection
Well-dressed family of 27 (Ostrovski) refugees posed on deck upon arival in New York from Russia, Sept. 16, 1921. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collect... More
Where the blame lies / Hamilton., Political Cartoon
Cartoon shows a man holding a top hat in one hand and gesturing toward horde of arriving immigrants labeled "German socialist," "Russian anarchist," "Polish vagabond," "Italian brigand," "English convict," "Iri... More
The immigrant. Is he an acquisition or a detriment? / Gillam ; Sackett...
Illus. in: Judge, 1903 September 19. Public domain photograph - immigration to the United States immigration, immigrants, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Physical examination of female immigrants at Ellis Island, New York C...
J157103 U.S. Copyright Office. No. U-97322. Public domain photograph of New York, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The ultimate cause / Frank A. Nankivell.
Illustration shows a Chinese woman with two children talking to an American missionary on a street with a market in the background. Caption: "But why is it," asked the thoughtful Chinese, "that I may go to you... More
Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. Priezd Evreev iz Bukhary v g. Kazalinsk
Photograph shows the arrival of Jews from Bukhara to the city of Kazalinsk (Qazaly). Man standing with loaded camels in front of building. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' étnograficheskaia︢: ..., 1871-1... More
The great fear of the period That Uncle Sam may be swallowed by foreig...
Print shows a one panel, three scene cartoon showing, in the first scene, an Irish man with the head of Uncle Sam in his mouth and a Chinese man with the feet of Uncle Sam in his mouth, in the second scene they... More
Uncle Sam presents his return quota of "assisted" immigrants
"Assisted emigrants for Great Britain passage paid by Uncle Sam" on ship; "Monopoly, the cow with many mouths to feed" on sign; "J. Hawbuck, N.Y. Legislature" on bag; and "Anti Common Sense Society" on sign at ... More
Emigrants coming to the "Land of Promise"
Copyright by William H. Rau. No. 4580. Reference copy in LOT 11021; original stereograph NOS 2/97; variant in PR 09 CN 109 (Rau USA New York).