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Immigration: Primary Sources

Books

America: the dream of my life: selections from the Federal Writer's Project's New Jersey Ethnic Survey./ Cohen. 1990
American Mosaic: the immigrant experience in the words of those who lived it./Morrisor & Zabusky. 1992
Great Slave Narratives./Bontemps. 1969.
Of interest here: "The Life of Olaudel Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself.
In Their Own Words: letters from Norwegian Immigrants./Zempel ed. 1991
The Old Land and the New: the journals of two Swiss families in America in the 1820's. 1965 (ebook)

Slavic Immigrant 1905 from NYPL Digital Collections

Websites

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
"Documenting voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the start of the Great Depression." From Harvard University.
National Archives--Docs Teach
The Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island Foundation
One can create an account to listen to interviews of immigrants.

Immigration Restriction League Publication