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- Reports of the Immigration Commission. Abstracts of Reports of the Immigration Commission Vol. II.
- ISBN: NA Price: $40.00
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1911
- Description: Volume 2 only; 900 pp.; original cloth badly stained, poor copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, Immigration Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 679898
- Annual Report of the Immigration and Naturalization Service 1964.
- ISBN: NA Price: $38.54
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1964
- Description: first edition, for the year ended June 30, 1964; quarto, 115 pp., largely tabular and no attempt at interpretation; library markings but sound in original paper wrappers. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, immigration, JZX Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 862580
- Hearings before the Committee on Immigration of the United States Senate on the Boycott of American Manufactured Goods by the People of China. April 17, 1906.
- ISBN: NA Price: $37.06
- Publisher: Washimgton: GPO, Date Published: 1906
- Description: first edition; 25 pp.; library markings, tattered and disbound in self wrappers, complete text but poor copy; the general feeling is that the United States should not give in to this sort of economic pressure, Chairman Dillingham was strong supporter of restricted immigration from China. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, China, immigration Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 867075
- Hearings before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization of the House of Representatives, January 23, 1906, to March 6, 1906, inclusive, ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $34.56
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1906
- Description: ... on the bills to establish a Bureau of Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States, and on different bills referring to the subject of restricting immigration.; 171 pp., title soiled at margins but overall a very good copy stapled into self wrappers as issued; a collection of testimony on various questions e.g. should the child of a naturalized American citizen be given immediate citizenship? why are Italians considered particularly undesirable?, how many Chinese are illegally crossing the Mexican border?, why are railroads forbidden to recruit immigrants as laborers when their “wicked partners” in Europe are free to do what they want?, is it a good idea to replace Southern Black workers with immigrants? (it is allowed that Blacks are good workers “in stripes and under guard”), etc. etc.. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: immigration, naturalization, United States Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 414596
- Reports of the Immigration Commission. Abstacts of Reports of the Immigration Commission ... Vol. I.
- ISBN: NA Price: $33.18
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1911
- Description: Volume 1 only; viii, 283 pp.; lacks back cover of paper wrappers, front cover and first leaf detached, text shaken, working copy only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, immigration Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 414635
- Report of the Select Committee on Immigration and Naturalization and testimony taken by the Committee on Immigration of the Senate and the Select Committee ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $30.92
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1891
- Description: ... on Immigration and Naturalization of the House of Representatives under concurrent resolution of March 12, 1890. Reported to the House by Mr. Owen, of Indiana, January 15, 1891.; lvii, [1] (index to House reports), x, 1095 pp.; issued as 51st Congress, 2d Session, HR 3472; library book plate and markings, original law leather faded and rubbed with top front joint split and front hinge cracked, general age toning but not fragile, overall good+; Owen was shortly to be named Commissioner of Immigration and under his direction the committee explored questions of contract labor, the work of state commissions, why the average American with a wife and five or six children cannot live on $1.25 a day but an Italian can and pay $5 a month to a broker to keep his job, the question of ?worthless Canadians? who cross the border for seasonal work, the influx of European criminals, etc. etc. along with matters of less immediate importance e.g. can a ?tuba blower? be an artist? (when a soloist, yes). Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, immigration, naturalization Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 416615
- Regulation of Immigration. Report of the Committee on Immigration, United States Senate, on the Bill (H. R. 12199) to Regulate the Immigration of Aliens into the United States ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $34.54
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1902
- Description: ix, [1], 484 pp., plan in text; issued as 57th Congress, 2d Session, SD 62; library markings, original law leather rubbed, light general age toning to text, still a sound, good+ copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, immigration Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 427093
- Immigration: Report of the Committee on Immigration of the United States Senate on February 22, 1893, Accompanying a Bill Establishing Additional Regulations Concerning Immigration to the United States ... (etc. etc.)
- ISBN: NA Price: $105.64
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1893
- Description: reprints the Serial Set issue of the same year; xvii, [1], 279 pp.; library markings, original paper wrappers chipped and taped but only general age toning to text, good only; testimony and prepared statements on a number of pending bills and proposals; perhaps all immigration should be suspended for one year, should the steamship companies have the responsibility to inspect immigrants before they bring them over?, should a refused immigrant have any recourse to a second opinion?, the xenophobic American Defense Association is worried that "our citizenship is entirely too cheap", etc. etc.. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, immigration law, immigrants, BBW Show items similar to this.
Request a photo for this item.- Item Number: 835530
- Leadership of the New America, Racial and Religious.
- ISBN: NA Price: $111.13
- Publisher: NY:George H. Doran Company, Date Published: 1916
- Description: first edition; 314 pp., 8 plates including the frontispiece, small folding map; ex library and front hinge cracked, still sound but good only; intended to educate Protestant religious leaders on the peculiarities of various immigrant groups e.g. American Jews are not very religious, the Chinese usually restrict lawlessness to themselves, Italians are extreme individualists, the most influential member of a Magyar community is likely to be a saloonkeeper, etc. etc.. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Unites States, immigrants, national characteristics Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 676422
- The Challenge of Our Immigration Laws. Introduction by Abner Green.
- ISBN: NA Price: $33.57
- Publisher: NY: American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, Date Published: 1945
- Description: [32] pp., very good in self wrappers. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, emigration, immigration, law Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 441753
- Causes of the General Depression in Labor and Business. Chinese Immigration. Investigation by a Select Committee of the House of Representatives ....
- ISBN: NA Price: $273.88
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1879
- Description: 468 pp.; issued as 46th Congress, 2d Session, HMD 5; library hand stamps on edges, light general age toning and light extraction roughness at spine, still well sewn but now in self wrappers; testimony taken at various locations throughout the country, the question of Chinese immigration dominates and that taken in San Francisco and is generally negative, at one point chairman Wright convinces himself that the Chinese believe that the Supreme Being is concentrated in an alligator. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, business depressions, economic history, Chinese immigration, Labor Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 566587
- Message ... transmitting, A report by the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, regarding the case of Special Immigrant Inspector Marcus Braun.
- ISBN: NA Price: $33.80
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1906
- Description: 21 pp.; issued as 59th Congress, 1st Session, HD 482; light extraction roughness at spine and light general age toning, now disbound in self wrappers; Braun's investigation of emigration from Austria-Hungary to the United States was going along without incident until a Budapest detective allegedly starting opening his mail and news stories were spread that Braun was a known thief and blackmailer. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: emigration, immigration, Austria-Hungary, United States Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 408375
- Message ... transmitting ... official correspondence of the government of the United States and China, relating to the scts of Congress Forbidding Immigration of Chinese and the treaty stipulations between the two countries.
- ISBN: NA Price: $38.14
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1893
- Description: 43 pp.; issued as 52d Congress, 2d Session, SED 54; light general age toning, light extraction roughness at spine and now partially disbound; a collection of correspondence with an overabundance of diplomatic courtesy and a few veiled treats. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, China, foreign relations, Chinese immigration Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 629475
- Mexican labor in the United States: racial school statistics, California, 1927, (University of California publications in Economics, vol. 6#4)
- ISBN: NA Price: $20.00
- Publisher: University of California Press Date Published: 1929
- Description: first edition, 27 pp., two folding maps, later boards and ex library, good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: immigration studies United States-Mexico relations agriculture education JZX Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 907641
- The Alien and the Asiatic in American Law.
- ISBN: NA Price: $11.11
- Publisher: Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Date Published: 1946
- Description: first edition; xiv, 299 pp,; library book plate and markings, original cloth dulled, overall good+; "It is intended that the reader ... shall get the rather full statement of the status of the alien and the American citizen of Asiatic ancestry under American constitutional law."; mostly about aliens generally including exclusion, expulsion, denaturalization, land ownership, work restrictions (in Michigan aliens are not permitted to be wresting promoters), etc., etc.. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, immigration policy, citizenship, aliens, law, BWK Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 688662
- Indian Emigration to America (India and the World, N umer 8)
- ISBN: NA Price: $27.91
- Publisher: Bombay (etc.): Oxford University Press, Date Published: 1945
- Description: first edition; 12mo, 23 pp.; library markings and shaken in original paper wrappers, reading copy; recent changes in immigration law will now allow Indians to come in on a quota basis and It appears bars to becoming citizens will be lifted (Dr. Khairati Ram Samras was drafted in 1940 and after service was made a citizen even though not a "free white person" but the issue is still unclear). Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Indian Americans, India, United States, emigration, immigration, ZNI Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 862492
- Recent Recollections of the Anglo-American Church in the United States. By an English Layman, Five Years Resident in That Republic. Vol. I.
- ISBN: NA Price: $180.35
- Publisher: London: Rivington's, Date Published: 1861
- Description: Volume 1 only; xi, [1], 318, [2] pp.; original cloth rubbed with top back joint split and front hinge repaired, a few interior leaves shaken, good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Church of England, United States Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 518106
- Statistics of the United States of America, as Collected and Returned by the Marshals of the Several Judicial Districts under the Thirteenth Section of the Act for Taking the Sixth Census ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $198.00
- Publisher: Washinton: Printed by Blair and Rives Date Published: 1841
- Description: Corrected at the Department of State, June 1, 1840. Published by Authority of an Act of Congress, under the direction of the Secretary of State.; first edition; folio (slightly longer than 60 cm.), 409 pp., mostly tabular; library hand stamps, occasional damp staining, early, late, and some internal leaves tattered with no loss, some corners and tips bent or creased, leather spine rubbed and unprinted paper sides soiled with a few margin chips, good- only; Dubuster (Census) 25. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, Census, oversize Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 584803
- Laws of the United States of America ... Corresponding with and intended as a continuation of, the edition of Bioren & Co., as published by authority of an Act of Congress. (Volumes 6-10)
- ISBN: NA Price: $393.71
- Publisher: Washington: Davis & Force (later by others) Date Published: 1822
- Description: Volumes 6 (laws 1815 to 1821) through 10 (laws1839 to 1845) only, and the main works only, the General Index published with Volume 7 is not present; large, thick octavos, the smallest over a thousand pages, library and ownership markings, contemporary tan leather darkened a spine, rubbed, and with a few peel marks, light age staining and toning to interiors but not fragile and entirely serviceable. Volumes Included: 5
- Subject: United States, laws, law Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 626424
- Nouveau voyage dans les Etats-Unis de l'Amerique septentrionale, fait en 1788; par J. P. Brissot (Warville), citoyen francois.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,234.85
- Publisher: Paris: Chez Buisson, Date Published: 1791
- Description: first edition of the first two volumes, the third volume "Nouvelle edition" as issued for this set; 3 volumes, [4] (half title, title), lii, 395 pp. + [4] (half title, title), 460 pp., folding table + [4] (title, additional title leaf without imprint "De la France et des Etats-Unis, ou de l'importance de la revolution de l'Amerique pour le bonheur de la France ... par Etienne Claviere et J. P. Brissot (Warville). Nouvelle edition."; library book plates and markings, contemporary boards with leather spines rubbed, especially at joints, text age toned with some sections or leaves darker and occasional age spotting but not fragile and entirely readable, a good+ set. Volumes Included: 3
- Subject: United States, travel, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 679911
