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Digitizing Immigrant Letters
(2017)
  • Jennifer Hootman, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
  • Daniel Necas, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
  • Ellen Engseth, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
  • John Barneson, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
  • Shane Nackerud, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
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Abstract
The Digitizing Immigrant Letters Project aims to make available on-line letters from the IHRC Archives and other collections (private individuals, partner institutions) that were written between 1850 and 1970 both by immigrants (the so-called “America letters”) and to immigrants (“homeland letters”). On this portal website you can explore the archive by basic keyword searching the information about the letters (metadata) as well as their translations into English (available for all letters) and transcriptions. You can also browse the letters arranged in sets by the archival collection from which they were selected, and by date or language.
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Publication Date
September, 2017
Citation Information
Jennifer Hootman, Daniel Necas, Ellen Engseth, John Barneson, et al.. "Digitizing Immigrant Letters" (2017)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jlhootman/14/