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 (language of letters indicated in parentheses):

			Letters from the Diego Delfino Papers (Italian)
			Letters from the Alexander Granovsky Papers (Ukrainian)				Explore the languages of the letters
			Letters from the Grebenstchikoff Papers (Russian)
			Letters from the Paul Kovac Collection (Slovak)				Map with residences of letter writers
			Letters from the Anton Nemanich Papers (Slovenian)
			Letters from the Edward Paikens Papers (Latvian)				Resources (submitted by DIL network members - 2011)
			Letters from the Waclaw Panucevich Papers (coming soon)				Survey of Minnesota repositories with immigrant letters (2010)
			Letters from the Antonietta Petris Collection (Italian)				Other collections of letters on-line
			Letters from the Zdenka Rypka Papers (Czech)				Forum about letters digitization
			Letters from the Alessandro Sisca Papers (Italian)
			Letters from the Mike Vukasinovich Papers (Croatian)
			America Letters written by immigrants from Finland (Finnish)

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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