Emigration and immigration

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This promotional item, Alabama As It Is, or Immigrants' and Capitalists' Guide Book to Alabama , provides an overview of Alabama during the nineteenth century, aiming to attract settlers and investors to the state. It provides insight on how Alabama was marketed to potential immigrants and capitalists during a period of significant growth and change in the state.

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Letters to Bob Eramia of Chicago, Illinois, from the Imperial Legate of Iran, as well as a copy of a letter obtained on Mr. Eramia's behalf by the legation from the U.S. Deptartment of Labor, all concerning the immigration records of Aziz and Elizabeth Ohanessian/Oganesssoff and their son.

Scope and Contents This collection comprises ten manuscript letters written between 1831 and 1837 from Claiborne and Mobile, Alabama, documenting the experiences of several members of the Cooper family as they emigrated within the region. The letters provide detailed accounts of Southern culture, daily life, and social conditions in early nineteenth-century Alabama. Of particular significance are firsthand observations of the removal of the Creek Native Americans, offering insight into the effects of federal...

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Letters, postcards, photos, newsclipping, and passport of this German shoemaker who emigrated to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in the 1880s. All material is in German.

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A collection of correspondence, diaries, biographical notes, scrapbooks, photographs, memorabilia and other papers. It concerns the emigration of the family of John Washington Keyes and his wife Julia Hentz Keyes to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after the Civil War, and their subsequent travel all over the world.