LibGuides: History Vault: Immigration Records of the INS 1880-1930

Immigration Records of the INS 1880-1930

Immigration Records of the INS 1880-1930 (Module 10)

Covers the investigations made by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) during the massive immigration wave of 1880-1930. The files cover Asian immigration, especially Japanese and Chinese migration, to California, Hawaii, and other states; Mexican immigration to the U.S. from 1906-1930, and European immigration. There are also extensive files on the INS’s regulation of prostitution and white slavery and on suppression of radical aliens.

Places

Ellis Island, immigrant illiteracy and admission
Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Series A: Subject Correspondence Files, Part 3: Ellis Island , 1900-1933 (9p.)
Subversive and illegal aliens: sabotage
Transcript of immigration hearing for Alfred Hoffman in Walla Walla, WA begins on pg. 20.

Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Series A: Subject Correspondence Files, Part 6: Suppression of Aliens, 1906-1930 (44p.).
Bribery and corruption at Angel Island Immigration Service office, and coaching of Chinese and Hindu immigrants
Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Series A: Subject Correspondence Files, Part 1: Asian Immigration and Exclusion, 1906-1913 (32p.)

Statutes etc.

U.S. laws, treaties, and regulations restricting Chinese immigration, 1882-1894
Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Series A: Subject Correspondence Files, Part 1: Asian Immigration and Exclusion, 1906-1913. (27p.)
"Gentlemen's Agreement" between Japan and the U.S., informally limiting emigration from Japan (1907)
This search pulls up 4 different files with documents on Japanese immigration to the U.S.
Prostitution and white slavery immigration investigations, memos, correspondence, laws, and regulations
Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Series A: Subject Correspondence Files, Part 5: Prostitution and White Slavery , 1902-1933 (14p.)
Mexican immigration quotas
Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Series A: Subject Correspondence Files, Part 2: Mexican Immigration, 1906-1930 (100p.)
U.S. v. Clemenshire et al. case investigation, bribery, trials
Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Series A: Subject Correspondence Files, Part 1: Supplement: Asian Immigration and Exclusion, 1898-1941 (80p.)

People & Organizations

Prostitution and white slavery immigration investigations, International Conference on White Slavery
Series A: Subject Correspondence Files, Part 5: Prostitution and White Slavery, 1902-1933 (298p.)
Philip Cowen Rpt on European emigration to U.S., incl. Russian emigration to United States, Russian living conditions & employment, smuggling of illegal immigrants, extortion of illegal immigrants, Bialystock, Siedlce, Kalarash Pogrom, Galician emigration
P.6 shows table on Wages & Rent in Russia (in Roubles); p.12 shows illustration of house in Wilna.

Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Series A: Subject Correspondence Files, Part 4: European Investigations, 1898-1936 (54p.).
Subversive and illegal aliens: Industrial Workers of the World
Memos and hearing transcripts re: deportation of Fred Alquist. Memo, p. 11, outlines the issues.

Records ofthe Immigration and Naturalization Service, Series A: Subject Correspondence Files, Part 6: Suppression of Aliens, 1906-1930 (41p.).
Admission extension for the Mandarin Theatre Troupe, California
Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Series A: Subject Correspondence Files, Part 1: Supplement: Asian Immigration and Exclusion, 1898-1941 (196p.)