Center for American Studies

Resources

The United States in the Early 20th Century

• NYPL Digital Gallery | Ellis Island Photographs from the Collection of William Williams, Commissioner of Immigration, 1902-1913
  A digital collection of photographs taken at Ellis Island in the early 20th century.

• The History Place - Child Labor in America: Investigative Photos of Lewis Hine
  A collection of photographs of young children working in factories, mines or in the fields taken between 1908 and 1912 in the United States.

• Alcohol, Temperance and Prohibition
  A collection of digitized pamphlets that document the Prohibition Era during the 1920s and 1930s.

• New Deal Network
  A database featuring more than 20,000 pictures, speeches, letters and articles about the New Deal.

• The History Place - Dorothea Lange Photos
  Pictures of migratory farm workers taken by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration before the Second World War.

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