Migration

Land of Amber Waters: The History of Brewing in Minnesota

Created By: Doug Hoverson Publisher: Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2007

Legacy: The Saga of a Jewish German Family Across Time and Circumstance

Created By: Frank, Werner L Publisher: Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, 2003

Lion’s, Alfred Declaration of Intention to Naturalize

Alfred Lion’s Declaration of Intention (to petition for naturalization) with his Certificate of Arrival (New York, January 28, 1936) attached.

Lion’s, Alfred Petition for Naturalization

Little Germany: Ethnicity, Religion and Class in New York City, 1845-80

Created By: Nadel, Stanley Publisher: Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990

“Local Matters-Beer,” article from a St. Louis newspaper on the growing presence of German beer

The June 1857 newspaper article discusses the growing presence of German beer and beer gardens in St. Louis as a…

Mannhardt, Christian Luis portrait, 1804

C.L. Mannhardt, of Maulbronn, Württemberg, was part of a new generation of German immigrants who took advantage of the rising…

Map of Texas for Prospective Migrants

Map of of Texas showing the new borders stipulated by the Compromise of 1850 and ratified by the Texas legislature…

Merchants of Migration: Keeping the German Atlantic Connected in America’s Early National Period

This essay examines how, in the period 1800-1820, merchant practices refined during the colonial era helped to bring thousands of Germans to the New World, in a period before regular commercial shipping between Germany and the United States could furnish large-scale immigration.

Migration to America and German-Immigrant Entrepreneurship During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Suggested framework for an intensive, five-session extra unit (45-minute class periods) for an advanced English class (Gymnasium) on the themes of Migration / Immigration to the U.S. / German Immigrants / Immigrant Biographies / The American Dream

Oral History Collection of the Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration

Created By: Leo Baeck Institute Publisher: Leo Baeck Institute, New York, NY

Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710

Created By: Jones, Henry Z. Jr. Publisher: 2 vols. Universal City: self-published, 1985).

Passenger Agreements in the North Atlantic Trade

“Passenger Agreements in the North Atlantic Trade”: From the contemporary Congressional investigation of international shipping cartels, this diagram shows the…

Passenger Contract, available to German migrants in Amsterdam

The city council at Basel produced this passenger-captain contract in 1816, early in the post-Napoleonic emigration wave, in order to…

Passenger list documenting Arnold Genthe's arrival in New York

Arnold Genthe as the 164th entry in this passenger list documenting arrivals in New York in 1895.

Passenger list for Julius Brach's ship from Bremen to New York

Passenger list showing the Aaron family’s arrival aboard the Königstein

Passenger list showing the Aaron family’s arrival aboard the Königstein on September 24, 1937.

Passenger Shipping Cartels and Their Effect on Trans-Atlantic Migration

Created By: Deltas, George, Richard Sicotte, and Peter Tomczak Source/Publisher: The Review of Economics and Statistics 90 (2008): 119-33

Penn, William Missive, Amsterdam

Percentage of Americans of German Origin

As late as 1910, about nine percent of the American population had been born in Germany or was of German…