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Immigrants' Protective League Records, 1919-1967
The Immigrants' Protective League was founded in 1908 as a resource for all new immigrants arriving in Chicago. The Immigrants' Protective League records contain reports, memoranda, case histories, affidavits, legislative bills, dissertations, press releases, resolutions, photographs, maps, addresses, statements, clippings, and articles.
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Arrival Conditions, 1928 (Folder 9)
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Interviews with immigrants and Traveller's Aid Society members about travel conditions and the arrival conditions in Chicago. Also includes report on findings. Ethnic groups and nationalities mentioned include Swedes, Czechs, Italians, Russians, Norwegians, Poles, Croats, Armenians, Austrians, English and Irish.
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1928
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Immigrants' Protective League records
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Immigrants' Protective League Cheating Report No. VI (Folder 52)
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Reports of complaints by migrants against steamship companies and other fraudulent operators, including case histories. Also discusses cheating in business by immigrants.
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circa 1920s
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Immigrants' Protective League records
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In the Shadow of Liberty Review, 1935 (Folder 70)
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Review of Edward Corsi's book "In the Shadow of Liberty: The Chronicle of Ellis Island".
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1935
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Immigrants' Protective League records
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Social Service Review - Ellis Island Committee Report, 1934-1937 (Folder 106)
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Immigrants' Protective League report discussing the "Report of the Ellis Island Committee" issued by the United States Department of Labor, and an issue of "The Family", published by the Family Welfare Association of America.
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Immigrants' Protective League records
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Some Near Eastern Immigrant Groups in Chicago dissertation, 1922 (Folder 111)
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University of Chicago dissertation on Armenian, Syrian and Assyrian immigrant groups in Chicago, with appendices containing case studies. Document with extracts from the Immigration Act of 1917, rules for its enforcement, and study questions.
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Immigrants' Protective League records
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United States Census - Citizenship, Immigration, Illiteracy, 1921-1928 (Folder 125)
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Copy of the Illinois State Compendium of the fourteenth United States census, with statistics on population, occupations, agriculture, drainage, manufactures and mines and quarries for the state's counties and cities. Includes a copy of "Country of Birth of the Foreign-Born Population", also part of the fourteenth United States census.
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Immigrants' Protective League records
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United States Census - Citizenship, Immigration, Illiteracy, 1921-1928 (Folder 126)
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Three publications covering immigration issues, produced as part of the fourteenth United States census: "Color or Race, Nativity and Parentage", "Mother Tongue of the Foreign White Stock", and "Farm Statistics by Race, Nativity, and Sex of Farmer".
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Immigrants' Protective League records
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University of Illinois Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
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Manuscript Collections
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Richard J. Daley Library
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Ethnicity/Immigration
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Rich, Adena Miller, 1888-1967
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Rich, Mrs. Kenneth F.
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