Find Primary Sources Online

Approximately 500,000 immigrants from 80 countries were processed, detained, and/or interrogated at the site.

Nearly 2,000 interviews from passengers, families, immigration officials, military personnel, detainees, and former island employees.

Searchable database of immigrants who arrived at the Port of New York from 1820 to 1957.

A digital collection of historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the start of the Great Depression.

Offers primary sources materials on African, Asian, European, and Hispanic immigration and relocation.

A primary source set for classroom use.

Provides digital primary source materials as well as external websites, and a print bibliography.

This project aims to make available on-line letters that were written between 1850 and 1970 both by immigrants (the so-called “America letters”) and to immigrants (“homeland letters”).