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Balch Online Resources: Working with Documents Experience
American immigration history and ethnic life with Balch produced
resources. The Migration Experience Emigration U.S.A. - Read popular ``emigrant guides" that provided potential emigrants with information about the United States and Canada. Destination U.S.A. - See actual steamship advertisements and fare schedules. Read three personal accounts of life in steerage. Philadelphia's Ellis Island - The Washington Avenue immigrant processing station on the banks of the Delaware from colonial times to 1924. Work & Society Freedom for Some: Japanese American Internment Experience: An informative online exhibit that features materials from the Balch Institute Archives. Read correspondence, pamphlets, and school books from the Internment camps. |