DBIS - North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories

The collection contains over 100,000 pages of ego-documents (letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies), which documented reports and experiences of contemporaries on immigration in North America (USA, Canada). Approximately 35,000 pages are from the Ellis Island Oral History Interviews. They document the experiences of immigrants from different countries, from Asia to Russia and Central and Southern Europe. The collection of sources focuses on the years 1890-1920.

National License (National License)

Formal type Online

Publisher Alexander Street Press

Germany-wide access to the database North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories by Alexander Street Press is made possible by funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and organised by the Göttingen State and University Library.

National License

Access Type	Access via authentication methods
Access link	https://edocs.sub.uni-goettingen.de/handle/4/17865
Host	Niedersächsische SUB Göttingen
Usage	freely accessible throughout Germany (DFG-funded national licence)

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Access Type	Individual registration required (Link with registration)
Access link	https://nl.zugang.nationallizenzen.de/han/2bdc6676-f03b-7585-ec1e-242754214aef
Host	Niedersächsische SUB Göttingen
Usage	Individuals registered for national licenses
Usage (long description)	Individuals with permanent residence in the Federal Republic of Germany can personally register for free access if they do not have access via a university network or their academic library.

Resource id

6141

Subjects

History Sociology

Database types

Full Text Database

Keywords

USA Immigrants source History 1890-1920

Notes

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Instructions

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Further information

Alternative titles	IMLD
Countries	USA
Updating	Not updated anymore

External identifiers

ZDB	2238255-0
ZDB	ZDB-1-NAI

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