Immigration History Research Center (IHRC), University of Minnesota (Web)

This project aims to make available on-line digitized letters from the IHRC Archives and other collections (private individuals, partner institutions) that were written between 1850 and 1970 both by immigrants and to immigrants. The website encourages scholars, teachers, students and the public to interpret letters that express emotion and intimacy among separated loved ones in new ways. The letters are written in several languages: Italian, Ukrainian, Finnish, Latvian, Czech a.o. Read more …

Letters from the collection of Emilie Wehle Papers (Vienna)

As part of a collaborative project with the Sammlung Frauennachlässe housed at the Department of History at the University of Vienna, six letters selected by Li Gerhalter have been included in the Digitizing Immigrant Letters digital archive. This selection presents the correspondences of an upper middle class family from Vienna, whose history in the 19th and 20th centuries has been characterized by mobility in the form of migration and flight. The disparate positions of the respective family members become obvious in their letters, which were preserved in the estate of Emilie Wehle (1873-1955). Read more …