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Title page of The Church and the Immigrant by Georgia E. Harkness. New York: George H. Doran Co., 1921.
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Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.
Material from Harvard Divinity School Library includes:
- Lecture notes and papers of George La Piana (1878-1971), a member of the Harvard Divinity School faculty from 1916 to 1948;
- The Church and the Immigrant (1921), the published master's thesis of Georgia E. Harkness, the first woman in the United States to be appointed to a theological professorship;
- Several books, including Sons of Italy: A Social and Religious Study of the Italians in America (1917) by Antonio Mangano and The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware, 1638-1664 (1911) by Amandus Johnson;
- The first public health study based on statistical research, Immigration Into the United States (1848), by Jesse Chickering, who graduated from the Divinity School in 1821.
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is part of Harvard's Open Collections Program.
