DescriptionThis memorandum from Dick Hogarty of the New Jersey Office of Economic Opportunity, lists in chronological order the deaths of various migrant workers throughout New Jersey from 1962 to 1965. The...
DescriptionThis March 2, 1961, report consists of statistical figures of migratory labor in New Jersey during 1960. Figures were collected from various official sources, and include a comparison of migrant...
DescriptionGovernor Johan Rising reports to the Swedish government and royalty on the status of New Sweden (present-day New Jersey). He also reports on other Swedish colonies in the area. He asks that single...
DescriptionJohannes Bogaert, Dutch clerk of New Amsterdam (present-day New York), reports to Holland on the Dutch takeover of New Sweden. He accounts how the Dutch travelled to New Sweden and took over Fort...
DescriptionThe Order of United Americans, also known as the Know-Nothings, formed in the mid-1800s to support the rights of native-born Americans over those of immigrants, and to combat what they saw as foreign...
DescriptionSent on stationery from the Hotel Paramount in Boston, this letter from Ernest Wolff, the Chief Machinist of the U.S.S. Prairie, thanks the Hungarian Defense Council for a carton of cigarettes they...
DescriptionThis photograph portrays members of Congregation Ahavath Achim B'nai Israel Synagogue in Irvington, NJ. A handwritten caption on the back says, "Remembering 40 years back! Bottom Row: Betty Kesner,...
DescriptionThis letter concerns the illegal employment of British West Indian contract workers at Seabrook Farms, as a way to avoid complying with Puerto Rico Migration Division regulations. The Workers Defense...
DescriptionWorking as a midwife, Magdalene Kovacs delivered many infants in New Brunswick in the 1920s. Here she records the birth of Olga Zagneetka, whose parents had emigrated from Russia.
