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Date Issued1910-1912
DescriptionThree small children standing by the side of a tree-lined dirt street.
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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Date Issued1877
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Date Created1945-08-11
DescriptionDuring the war, the War Manpower Commission (WMC) coordinated the recruitment of migrant guestworkers from the British West Indies. Because guestworkers entered the United States with specific...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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Date Created1974
Time PeriodContemporary America (1968-present)
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Date Issued1915
DescriptionSix men and a child standing in front of store at 77 West Main Street.
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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Date Created1905
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Date Created1904
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Date Created1944-11-15
DescriptionWorking conditions, housing, and wages at Seabrook Farms often failed to meet the expectations of migrant guestworkers. As this memo from November 1944 details, of the 97 Barbadian workers at Seabrook...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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Date Created1945-08-17
DescriptionA letter from the WMC to the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization instructs officers with the agency to arrest and send the Barbadians who left their contracts to Florida for deportation.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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Date Issued1919
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)