 |
1840-60:
Immigration by Place of Origin: 1840-1860 - chart |
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1849:
“Embryo Courtezans and Felons” - New York Police Chief George W.
Matsell Describes the City’s Vagrant and Delinquent Children |
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1852:
“We Are Not the Degraded Race You Would Make Us” -
Norman Asing Challenges Chinese Immigration Restrictions |
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1854:
“Born in Sin, Nurtured in Crime” - The Children of New York City’s
Notorious Five Points |
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1860:
“We Chinese Are Viewed Like Thieves and Enemies” - Pun
Chi Appeals to Congress to Protect the Rights of Chinese |
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1860-1984:
Annual Immigration Chart |
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1862:
An
Act to Protect Free White Labor Against Competition with Chinese
Coolie Labor and to Discourage the Immigration of the Chinese into the
State of California (4/26) |
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1867:
"The Mysteries and
Miseries of New York City. Interior of Mrs. McMahan's apartment at No.
22 Roosevelt Street." - wood engraving based on a sketch by Albert
Berghaus, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (2/2) |
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1868:
Burlingame-Seward Treaty |
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1869:
Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain (full text) |
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1869:
"Pacific Chivalry" - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (8/7) |
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1870-1920:
Urban and Rural Population, 1870-1920 - chart |
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1870:
"The Street Vendors of New York" - Scribners Monthly / Volume
1, Issue 2, December 1870 |
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1871:
"The Brains that Achieved the Tammany Victory at the Rochester
Democratic Convention" - political cartoon by Thomas Nast in
Harper's Weekly |
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1871:
"The Chinese Question" - political cartoon in Harper's
Weekly
(2/18) |
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1871:
"Going Through The Form Of Universal Suffrage" - political
cartoon in Harper's Weekly (11/11) |
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1872:
"The Life of the Street Rats" - Charles
Loring Brace |
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1873:
"Italian Street
Musicians and Their Masters" - wood engraving based on a sketch by
Matthew Morgan, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (3/8) |
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1874:
"The Chinese:
Facts for Atlantic Papers" -
San Francisco
Real Estate Circular |
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1874: "The
red flag in New York--Riotous communist workingmen driven from
Tompkins Square by the mounted police, Tuesday, January 13th." - wood
engraving based on a sketch by Matthew Morgan, Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Newspaper (1/31) |
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1875:
The Page Law |
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1876:
"The Chinaman in California" - chapter XIII in Two Years in
California - Mary Cone
(entire text) |
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1876:
Letters from California - D. L. Phillips
(entire text) |
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1876:
Memorial of the Chinese Six Companies to U.S. Grant, President
of the United States |
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1876-1920:
Voter Participation in Presidential Elections, 1876-1920 - chart |
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1877:
"New York City--Early
morning at a police station--Turning out the vagrant night lodgers." -
wood engraving based on a sketch by Fernando Miranda, Frank
Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (2/10) |
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1877:
"New York City--A
tramp's ablutions--An early morning scene in Madison Square." -
wood engraving, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (7/21) |
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1877:
Offense of the Spoils System - Roscoe Conkling |
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1877:
Report of the Joint
Special Committee to Investigate Chinese Immigration (2/27) |
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1878:
Fair’s Fair - Joseph McDonnell Argues for the Acceptance of Aliens |
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1878:
The Fight Begins at Home - Jewett Defends Asian
Immigrants |
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1878:
“Our Misery and Despair” - Denis Kearney Blasts Chinese
Immigration |
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1878-79:
Various
Documents on the Chinese Immigration Controversy
(additional documents) |
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1879:
"Every
Dog (No Distinction Of Color) Has His Day" - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (2/8) |
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1879:
Progress and Poverty
- Henry George (abridged version) |
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1880:
Chinese Exclusion Treaty |
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1880:
Edward Holton's Observations About Denis Kearney, a
Leading Advocate of Chinese Exclusion |
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1881:
"De Yaller Chinee" in The Century, a popular quarterly. /
Volume 23, Issue 1, Nov. |
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1882:
Chinese
Exclusion Act |
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1882:
"(Dis-)Honors
are Easy"- political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (5/20) |
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1882:
Progress and Poverty - Henry George - Preface
pp. 1-13 |
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1883:
"The New Colossus" - poem by Emma Lazarus |
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1884:
"Enactments So Utterly Un-American" - Constance
Gordon-Cumming |
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1884:
"Ready for Business" - political cartoon in Puck (7/23) |
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1884:
Whose Library Is It Anyway - A Visit to the Lenox |
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1884:
The Working Girls of Boston - report of
the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor
|
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1885:
A
German Radical Emigrates to America |
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1885:
"Perils--The City" - Josiah Strong |
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1885:
“Rock Springs is Killed” - White Reaction to the Rock Springs Riot |
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1885:
“To This We Dissented” - The Rock Springs Riot |
|
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1886:
Haymarket Martyr Albert Parsons’s Last Words to His Wife |
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1886:
Haymarket Martyr Louis Lingg Says Good-bye |
|
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1886:
“I Am Sorry Not to Be Hung” - Oscar Neebe and the
Haymarket Affair |
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1886:
Race and Racism at the 1886 Knights of Labor Convention |
|
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1885:
"To the president of the United States, and to the Senate and House of
Representatives in Congress assembled: Protest against
ill-treatment of the Chinese" - broadside |
|
|
1886:
Yick Wo v. Hopkins
(2) |
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|
1888:
An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese laborers to the United
States |
|
|
1888:
“I
Stumbled on the Place by Sheer Accident” - Oscar Ameringer Discovers
the Cincinnati Public Library in 1888 (as recalled in 1940) |
|
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1888:
Scott Act |
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1889:
Chae Chan
Ping v. United States |
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1889:
On Land Monopoly - W. Scott Morgan |
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1890:
A
Little Jewish Girl in the Russian Pale - Mary Antin |
|
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1890:
"China's Menace to
the World" - The Forum Magazine (Oct.) |
|
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1890:
Chinese Stereotyping |
|
|
1890:
New York City Tenement Life - Jacob Riis' How the Other
Half Lives
|
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1890:
"The Sweaters Of Jewtown" - in Jacob A. Riis' How
The Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York,
chapter 11 |
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1890, 1892:
"A Typical East-Side Block", (photos) |
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1891:
Mark Twain's Observations About Chinese Immigrants in
California |
|
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1892:
Geary Act
|
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1892:
Richard Croker on Tammany Hall |
|
|
1893:
Fong Yue Ting v. U.S. |
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1893:
The Objective Value of a Social Settlements
-
Jane Addams |
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1893:
Protestant Paranoia - The American Protective Association Oath |
|
|
1893:
"Russian Jews
as Desirable Immigrants" -
Ida M. Van
Etten |
|
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1893:
The Secret Oath of the American Protective Association
|
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1893:
Slumming Among the Unemployed - William Wycoff Studies Joblessness in
the1890s |
|
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1893:
The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements - Jane
Addams |
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1894:
Shepp's New York City Illustrated
- Another View of Inner City Life |
|
|
1894:
"Why the Best Men Do Not Go Into Politics"
- James Bryce in The American Commonwealth, Vol. II |
|
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1896:
"An East Side
Ramble" - William Dean Howells Impressions and Experiences (New York:
Harpers & Brothers) |
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1896:
"The Jews of New
York" - Jacob Riis |
|
|
1896:
"Restriction of Immigration" by Francis A. Walker,
The Atlantic Monthly (June) |
|
|
1896:
"Stranger at Our Gate" - political cartoon on Jewish immigration in
The Ram's Horn (4/25) |
|
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1897:
"The Modern Colossus" - political cartoon on political bosses in
The Ram's Horn (5/29) |
|
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1898:
"Hull House and the Ward Boss" - Ray Stannard Baker |
|
|
1898:
"The Russian Jew
in America" -
Abraham Cahan Atlantic
Monthly Vol. LXXXII (July 1898):
263-287 |
|
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1898:
United States v. Wong Kim Ark |
|
|
1899:
"Chinese vs. Negroes as American Citizens" - Mr. Samuel
Scottron in The Brooklyn Eagle |
|
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1898:
"Why the Ward Boss Rules" - Jane Addams in The Outlook (4/2) |
|
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1899:
"Democracy
or Militarism" - Jane Addams (4/30) |
|
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1899:
The Growth of Cities in the 19c - Adna Weber |
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1899-1900:
"New York's
New Building Code" -
Lawrence Veiller
Charities Review 9 (1899-1900),
388-391 |
|
|
late 1890s:
"Why Our Cities Are Badly Governed" - political cartoon in The
Ram's Horn |
|
|
late 19c-early 20c:
"Examination of Immigrants at Ellis Island" (photo) |
|
|
1900-01:
"The
Tenement-House Exhibition of 1899" -
Lawrence Veiller
Charities Review 10 (1900-1901),
19-25 |
|
|
1902:
"Americans
in the Raw: The high-tide of immigrants—their strange
possessions and their meager wealth—what becomes of them - Edward
Lowry in The World's Work |
|
|
1902:
"Among the Coal Miners" - Margaret Blake Robinson in
Missionary Review, Vol.
25, pp. 835-39 |
|
|
1902:
"Child
Labor in New York City Tenements" - Mary Van Kleeck in
Charities and the Commons
(1/18) |
|
|
1902:
A Clear and Present Danger - The Chinese Exclusion Act |
|
|
1902:
"Dens of Death" - photo from Jacob A. Riis. The Battle
With
the Slum |
|
|
1902:
The Evolution of the Tenement (floor plans) |
|
|
1902:
Eye on the East - Labor Calls for Ban on Chinese Immigration |
|
|
1902:
"The Life of a Coal Miner" - Rev. John McDowell in
The World's Work 4 (October
1902): 2659-60 |
|
|
1902:
Lincoln Steffens Exposes “Tweed Days in St. Louis” |
|
|
1902:
Riverside Tenements in Brooklyn (photo) |
|
|
1903:
"The
Biography of a Chinaman" - Lee Chew |
|
|
1903:
"Coney
Island Raid Resented by a Mob" - The New York Times (8/9) |
|
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1903:
Lee Chew - Life a Chinese Immigrant |
|
|
1903:
Portrait of Lee Chew (photo) |
|
|
1904:
Poverty - Robert Hunter (ch. VI on
"The Immigrant") |
|
|
1904:
Review of Opening Night at Coney Island, NYC - NY Times |
|
|
1904:
Shame of the Cities - Lincoln Steffens |
|
|
1905:
"Honest Graft" - George Washington Plunkitt |
|
|
1905:
“I Seen My Opportunities and I Took ‘Em” - An Old-Time Pol Preaches
Honest Graft |
|
|
1905:
Plunkitt’s Plain Talk - Satirizing Steffens |
|
|
1905:
William T. Riordon, from Plunkitt of Tammany Hall |
|
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1906:
Naturalization Act |
|
|
1906:
The Secret Life of Shop Girls - O. Henry’s Short Story “The Trimmed
Lamp” |
|
|
1906-7:
"Working House
of Women in Factories" -
Mary Van Kleeck
Charities and Commons 17 (1906-07),
13-21 |
|
|
1907:
Immigration Act of 1907 |
|
|
1908:
The Preamble to the Constitution of the Industrial Workers of the
World |
|
|
1910:
"First Days at Hull-House" - Jane Addams |
|
|
1911:
"Home Work in
the Tenements" -
Elizabeth C. Watson
Survey 25 (4 February 1911), 772-781 |
|
|
1911:
The Jewish Daily Forward
Reports the Triangle Tragedy |
|
|
1911:
Lament for Lives Lost - Rose Schneiderman and the Triangle Fire |
|
|
1911:
The Lure of the Past, Present, and Future - George W. Bryan
(entire text) |
|
|
1911:
Minute by Minute - The World’s Account of the Triangle Fire |
|
|
1911:
Two New York City Firemen Testify about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist
Fire |
|
|
1911:
The Principles of Scientific Management (excerpts) - Frederick
Winslow Taylor |
|
|
1911:
Rosenfeld’s Requiem - The Triangle Fire Victims in Verse |
|
|
1912:
The Promised Land - Mary Antin |
|
|
1913:
Tenement Room (photo) |
|
|
1913:
Tenement Street Scene (photo) |
|
|
1916-21:
Seven Letters from the Great Migration |
|
|
1917:
"The Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906" - Chapter 15 in My Seventy
Years in California by J. A. Graves
(entire text) |
|
|
1921:
William C. Pond's Ministry Among Chinese Immigrants in
San Francisco |
|
|
1927:
General
Comments on the Progress of L. A. - Jackson A. Graves
(entire text) |
|
|
1929:
Recollections of a Norwegian Immigrant - Andreas Ueland
(entire text) |
