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"El hermano lejano" : the transnational space of Salvadoran migration to the United States / by Beth Baker-Cristales

Title:
Transnational space of Salvadoran migration to the United States
Author:
Baker-Cristales, Beth  Search this
Physical description:
xi, 204 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
El Salvador
Date:
1999
Topic:
Salvadorans  Search this
Emigration and immigration  Search this
Call number:
E184.S15 B35 1999a
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_597574

"Enemies" : World War II alien internment / by John Christgau

Author:
Christgau, John  Search this
Physical description:
xi, 187 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1985
C1985
20th century
1933-1945
Topic:
Aliens--History  Search this
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, American  Search this
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps  Search this
Immigrants--History  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_711069

"Faire entendre cette humanité" / entretien de Aminata Aidara avec Sophie Bachelier

Author:
Bachelier, Sophie  Search this
Aidara, Aminata 1984-  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Bachelier, Sophie  Search this
Type:
Articles
Interviews
Place:
Senegal
Tunisia
Date:
2017
Topic:
Documentary films  Search this
Immigrants--In motion pictures  Search this
Call number:
NX2 .A375
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1098800

"Gold Washers" Snuff Box

Physical Description:
paint (overall material)
paper mache (overall material)
composition board (overall material)
Measurements:
overall: 3/4 in x 3 5/8 in; 1.905 cm x 9.2075 cm
Object Name:
snuff box
box, snuff
Place made:
United Kingdom: England
Date made:
ca 1860
Subject:
Migration  Search this
Occupation, general  Search this
Related event:
California Gold Rush  Search this
ID Number:
CL.294083.01
Catalog number:
294083.01
Accession number:
294083
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Work and Industry: Mining
Industry & Manufacturing
American Enterprise
Exhibition:
American Enterprise
Exhibition Location:
National Museum of American History
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-9e29-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_676084
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"I, too, want to be a big man" : the making of a Haitian "boat people" / Georges E. Fouron

Author:
Fouron, Georges Eugene  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Haiti
United States
Date:
2009
Topic:
Boat people  Search this
Haitians  Search this
Haitian-Americans  Search this
Emigration and immigration  Search this
Call number:
DT16.5 .N495 2009
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1035291

"Look for me all around you" : anglophone Caribbean immigrants in the Harlem Renaissance / edited by Louis J. Parascandola

Author:
Parascandola, Louis J. 1952-  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 469 p. ; 23 cm
Type:
Literary collections
Place:
Caribbean Area
West Indies
Date:
2005
C2005
20th century
Topic:
American literature--Caribbean American authors  Search this
West Indian Americans  Search this
Caribbean Americans  Search this
American literature  Search this
Harlem Renaissance  Search this
Emigration and immigration  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_790815

"M" Project for F. D. R., studies on migration and settlement

Author:
Field, Henry 1902-  Search this
M Project (U.S.)  Search this
Physical description:
421 p. 29 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1962
Topic:
Emigration and immigration  Search this
Land settlement  Search this
Population  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_469750

"Points of Entry" Exhibit at AM, 1996

Subject:
Anacostia Community Museum  Search this
Center for African American History & Culture (U.S.)  Search this
Points of Entry (Exhibition) (1996: Anacostia Museum)  Search this
Date:
November 1, 1996
Topic:
African Americans  Search this
Emigration and immigration  Search this
Exhibitions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Archives - History Div
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sic_2414

"Sitting on the Stile Mary," Irish Immigrant, (painting)

Artist:
Beard  Search this
Type:
Paintings
Exhibition Catalogs
Date:
1876
Topic:
Figure  Search this
State of Being--Other--Emigrant  Search this
Ethnic  Search this
Control number:
AECI 00500195
Data Source:
Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_aeci_7644

"This land was Mexican once" : histories of resistance from Northern California / by Linda Heidenreich

Author:
Heidenreich, Linda 1964-  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 255 p. : ill ; 24 cm
Type:
Anecdotes
Place:
California
Napa County
Napa County (Calif.)
Date:
2007
Topic:
Mexican Americans--History  Search this
History  Search this
Women--History  Search this
Immigrants--History  Search this
Government, Resistance to--History  Search this
Historiography  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Race relations  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_824204

"Uncle Sam's Lodging-House."

Producer:
Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann  Search this
Maker:
Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann  Search this
Physical Description:
paper (overall material)
blue; brown; red (overall color)
Measurements:
overall: 14 in x 21 in; 35.56 cm x 53.34 cm
Object Name:
pint
Place made:
United States: New York, New York City
Made at:
United States: New York, New York City
General subject association:
Political Caricatures  Search this
Referenced; depicted:
Uncle Sam  Search this
Irish Americans  Search this
Depicted:
Immigrants  Search this
Credit Line:
Marcia B. Kass
ID Number:
2009.0245.047
Accession number:
2009.0245
Catalog number:
2009.0245.047
See more items in:
Political and Military History: Political History, General History Collection
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-0fba-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_1385603

"Union is Strength"

Producer:
Nast, Thomas  Search this
Maker:
Nast, Thomas  Search this
Physical Description:
black (overall color)
white (overall color)
paper (overall material)
Measurements:
overall: 16 in x 10 3/4 in; 40.64 cm x 27.305 cm
Object Name:
cartoon
Place made:
United States: New York
Made at:
United States: New York
Date made:
1870
Published:
1870
Referenced:
Politics  Search this
Immigration  Search this
Education  Search this
ID Number:
2010.0067.05
Catalog number:
2010.0067.05
Accession number:
2010.0067
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-1ebe-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_1383621

"Villages noirs" et autres visiteurs africains et malgaches en France et en Europe : 1870-1940 / Jean-Michel Bergougniou, Rémi Clignet, Philippe David

Author:
Bergougniou, Jean-Michel  Search this
Clignet, Remi  Search this
David, Philippe  Search this
Physical description:
303 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Type:
Congresses
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Place:
Europe
France
Madagascar
Europa
Afrikaner
Schwarze
Madagassen
Date:
2001
Topic:
Human zoos  Search this
Africans--Social conditions  Search this
African diaspora  Search this
Blacks--History  Search this
Immigrants--Social conditions  Search this
Visiteurs étrangers--Histoire  Search this
Africains--Histoire  Search this
Noirs--Histoire  Search this
Expositions ethnologiques--Histoire  Search this
Blacks  Search this
International relations  Search this
Exotik  Search this
Alltag  Search this
Völkerkundliche Schaustellung  Search this
Relations  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1057334

"We offer the whole of Africa here!" : African curio traders and the marketing of a global African image in post-apartheid South African cities / A. Wa Kabwe-Segatti

Author:
Kabwe-Segatti, Aurelia Wa  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
South Africa
Johannesburg
Date:
2009
Topic:
Tourism and art  Search this
Art market  Search this
Immigrants  Search this
African art dealers  Search this
Call number:
DT1 .C132
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1053765

#1 Dad Picture Frame Found in Sonoran Desert

Physical Description:
metal (overall material)
Measurements:
overall: 6 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in x 3/4 in; 15.875 cm x 13.97 cm x 1.905 cm
Object Name:
picture frame
Associated Place:
United States: Arizona, Territory of, Nogales
Subject:
Immigration  Search this
Latino  Search this
ID Number:
2015.0070.25
Accession number:
2015.0070
Catalog number:
2015.0070.25
See more items in:
Home and Community Life: Ethnic
Many Voices, One Nation
Exhibition:
Many Voices, One Nation
Exhibition Location:
National Museum of American History
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-e080-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_1804985

(15 Historical Utility Poles), (sculpture)

Title:
(Fifteen Historical Utility Poles), (sculpture)
Sculptor:
Mayers, Natasha  Search this
Assistant:
Hartman, Darrell  Search this
Mayers, Noah  Search this
Medium:
Painted utility poles
Culture:
Irish  Search this
Type:
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Coadministered by Town of Whitefield Townhouse Road Whitefield Maine
Coadministered by Maine Central Power Maine
Located Throughout the Town of Whitefield Whitefield Maine
Date:
Copyrighted 1994. October 1994
Topic:
History--United States--Maine  Search this
History--United States--Immigration  Search this
Allegory--Place--Whitefield  Search this
History--United States--Civil War  Search this
Ethnic  Search this
Religion--Catholicism  Search this
Control number:
IAS ME000346
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_331428

111 days to Zion / by Hal Knight and Stanley B. Kimball ; illustrations by Robert R. Noyce ; maps by Richard F. Carter

Title:
One hundred and eleven days to Zion
Author:
Knight, Hal  Search this
Kimball, Stanley Bucholz  Search this
Noyce, Robert R  Search this
Carter, Richard (Richard F.)  Search this
Physical description:
253 p. : ill., maps ; 16 x 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
West (U.S.)
Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail
Date:
1997
C1997
Topic:
Mormons--History  Search this
Pioneers, Mormon--Emigration  Search this
Mormon Church--History  Search this
Overland journeys to the Pacific  Search this
Call number:
F826 .K55 1997
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_527290

1895 - 1896 Chinese American Man's Gown

Maker:
unknown  Search this
Physical Description:
silk (overall material)
satin (overall material)
Measurements:
overall: 72 cm x 131 cm; 28 3/8 in x 51 9/16 in
Object Name:
gown, man's
Object Type:
Man
Main Dress
Gown
Place made:
China
Worn:
United States: New York, Manhattan, Chinatown
Date made:
ca 1896
Referenced:
Immigration  Search this
Immigrants  Search this
Used:
Chinese Americans  Search this
Related event:
Li Hongzhang visit to New York  Search this
Related Publication:
Mead, Virginia Lee. Lee Chinese -American Family Papers, ca. 1915-1970
Related Web Publication:
http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?q=set_name:%22Lee+Chinese-American+Family+Papers%2C+ca.+1915-1970%22
Credit Line:
Gift of James Edgar Mead and Virginia Lee Mead
ID Number:
1992.0620.24
Catalog number:
1992.0620.24
Accession number:
1992.0620
See more items in:
Home and Community Life: Costume
Family & Social Life
Cultures & Communities
Clothing & Accessories
Transcontinental Railroad
Chinese American
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-936c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_1119989
Online Media:

1895 - 1900 Chinese American Man's Slippers

Maker:
unknown  Search this
Physical Description:
satin (overall material)
Measurements:
overall: 9 1/4 in x 3 in x 2 3/4 in; 23.495 cm x 7.62 cm x 6.985 cm
Object Name:
slippers, pair of, man's
Object Type:
Man
Slippers
Footwear
Place made:
China
Worn:
United States: New York, Manhattan, Chinatown
Date made:
ca 1896
Referenced:
Immigration  Search this
Immigrants  Search this
Used:
Chinese Americans  Search this
Related Publication:
Mead, Virginia Lee. Photograph, Mr. Lee B. Lok at his store
Mead, Virginia Lee. Lee Chinese -American Family Papers, ca. 1915-1970
Related Web Publication:
http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?view=&dsort=&date.slider=&q=AC0555-0000001.tif
http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?q=set_name:%22Lee+Chinese-American+Family+Papers%2C+ca.+1915-1970%22
Credit Line:
Gift of James Edgar Mead and Virginia Lee Mead
ID Number:
1992.0620.27.a-b
Catalog number:
1992.0620.27.a-b
1992.0620.27a-b
Accession number:
1992.0620
See more items in:
Home and Community Life: Costume
Family & Social Life
Cultures & Communities
Clothing & Accessories
Chinese American
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-936f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_1119992
Online Media:

1895 - 1905 Chinese American Woman's Skirt

Maker:
unknown  Search this
Physical Description:
silk (overall material)
satin (overall material)
Measurements:
overall: 88 cm x 107 cm; 34 21/32 in x 42 1/8 in
Object Name:
skirt, woman's
Object Type:
Skirt
Woman
Main Dress
Place made:
China: Hong Kong, Colony of
Worn:
United States: New York, Manhattan, Chinatown
Date made:
ca 1900
Referenced:
Immigration  Search this
Immigrants  Search this
Used:
Chinese Americans  Search this
Related Publication:
Mead, Virginia Lee. Lee Chinese -American Family Papers, ca. 1915-1970
Related Web Publication:
http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?q=set_name:%22Lee+Chinese-American+Family+Papers%2C+ca.+1915-1970%22
Credit Line:
Gift of James Edgar Mead and Virginia Lee Mead
ID Number:
1992.0620.20
Accession number:
1992.0620
Catalog number:
1992.0620.20
See more items in:
Home and Community Life: Costume
Family & Social Life
Cultures & Communities
Clothing & Accessories
Chinese American
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-a132-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_1119984
Online Media:

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