The AJHS Manuscript Catalog
Galveston Immigration Plan (Founded 1907-Dissolved 1914) |
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Type / Call # | INSTITUTIONAL / I-090 | Contains minutes of the New York Galveston Committee (1907-1914), immigrant removal records, analyses of cities for removees, records of the 1910 deportation appeal, and correspondence with the Jewish Immigrant Information Bureau (1907-1915). Includes also correspondence with the following assisting European organizations: Israelitische Allianz zu Wien, Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden, the Jewish Territorial Organization of Great Britain, the Judische Emigrations-Gesellschaft of Kiev and that of Warsaw. Contains also correspondence from local agents and employers, as well as from the following state agencies within the U.S.: Albany State Hospital Commission, American Jewish Committee, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and its Ellis Island Station, National Liberal Immigration League, Philadelphia Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants, U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor Immigration Bureau, U.S. Dept. of Justice, and the Jewish Charitable Organizations of Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Des Moines, Kansas City, Memphis, Rock Island, St. Joseph, and St. Paul.
| Years | 1907-1918
| Size | 6 boxes |
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