Digitizing Immigrant Letters

This project aims to make available on-line digitized letters from the IHRC collections that were written between 1850 and 1970 both by immigrants (the so-called “America letters”) and to immigrants (“Europe Letters”) in languages other than English. The website encourages scholars, teachers, students and the public to interpret letters that express emotion and intimacy among separated loved ones in new ways.

Browse letters by clicking the links below:

			Letters from the Diego Delfino Papers
			Letters from the Alexander Granovsky Papers				Explore the languages of the letters
			Letters from the Grebenstchikoff Papers
			Letters from the Edward Paikens Papers
			Letters from the Antonietta Petris Collection
			Letters from the Alessandro Sisca Papers				Resources (submitted by DIL network members - 2011)
			Letters from the Mike Vukasinovich Papers				Survey of Minnesota repositories with immigrant letters (2010)
			America Letters written by immigrants from Finland				Other collections of letters on-line

All letters digitized as part of the project can also be searched here.

More about the Digitizing Immigrant Letters (DIL) project

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