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Jamaicans on board the Empire WindrushJamaican men on board the Empire Windrush who have come to Britain to seek work; some of the men, dressed smartly in jackets and ties, are reading a newspaper
MV Empire Windrush, best known for the arrival of West Indian immigrants at Tilbury Docks on 22 June 1948. Date: circa 1948
Its Mine, Poster, Canada, the right land for the right man, with Canadian National Railways
Canada, the right land for the right man Poster, showing a man farming and harvesting wheat, by Canadian National Railways
American Line Poster advertising cruises from Southampton to New York
Young North Africans dancing on the Paris QuaisYoung North Africans (from Algeria) dance on the Paris Quais. Date: circa 1950s
Canadian Call to Women White Star Line posterPoster produced by the White Star Line shipping company encouraging women to emigrate to Canada
Emigrate to Canada posterPoster issued by the Canadian Pacific Company advertising to would be emigrants that they could own their own home in Canada and apply for a ready-made farm
Empire Windrush 1948The Empire Windrush sails up the English Channel towards Londons Tilbury Docks, carrying 400 Jamaicans who have come to England in search of a new life
Leaving QueenstownA large crowd of Irish emigrants gather at the harbour at Queenstown ready to depart for a new life in America
Italians in Saffron HillA group of Italian men sit in the sun or lounge in doorways in a Saffron Hill street separated from the women and children outside a shop belonging to F Ciccone Date: 1930s
Cunard Poster advertising cruises from Liverpool to Boston on the Scythia and Laconia cruise ships
Ready made Farms in Western Canada Poster offering a new home in Canada with Canadian Pacific
White Star Line Emigration posterPoster produced by White Star Line encouraging people to " jump to it" for the chance of a lifetime - to emigrate to Canada
Russian Jews in EnglandRussian refugees in the Poor Jews Temporary Shelter, Leman Street, in the East End of London
Arrivals by German BoatAt the docks: arrivals by a German steamer; men and women, some Jewish, wait on dockside having travelled by boat from Germany
British Migrants to Australia on board ship - 1920sIn the 1920s, the Australia Government was keen to develop regional areas. Prime Minister Stanley Bruce considered there were three things necessary for this: labour
San Francisco, California, USA - Chinatown, Fortune Teller. Date: 1904
An immigrant from Trinidad, probably 1940s
Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, New York, USA
Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island New York pre 1900
Immigrants Awaiting Outside Court-Room, Blackwall Pier 1906The Immigration Act of 1906 was the first legal mechanism for enforcing a policy of selective categories of prohibited immigrants
Spanish Civil War child refugees arrive at Southampton, 1937Children from Bilbao waiting to land from the Spanish Compania transaltantic liner Habana at Southampton docks-child refugees evacuated to England during the Spanish Civil War, 1937
Enoch Powell, controversial British politician(John) Enoch Powell (1912-1998), British politician and Conservative MP from 1950 to 1974. After controversy over his Rivers of Blood speech in 1968
Elllis Island, New York Harbour, NY, USA. Date: circa 1920
German gipsies at their Glasgow encampmentGerman gipsies pictured at their encampment at Vinegar Hill, Glasgow, where they caused quite a stir among the locals
Jamaican immigrants arriving in Britain in the 1950s. Date: 1954
US PORTS & CHOLERA 1892Foreign workers come arm in arm with asiatic cholera; American ports must close their gates (1892) Date: 1892
WORKING MAN THREATENEDIndiscriminate immigration threatens the livelihood of the American working man Date: 1892
Irish emigrants leaving home 1870Morning of departure, the Irish emigrants saying goodbye to love ones, to leave for America. Date: 1870
Aquarium (formerly Fort Clinton) in Battery Park and New York Harbour, NYC, USA. Date: circa 1920s
Travellers to England! Jamaican migration advertisementTravellers to England! Remember: There is unemployment in England. Make sure there is a job before you go. Make sure you know where you are going to stay, before leaving Jamaica
The great fear of the period That Uncle Sam may be swallowed by foreigners : The problem solved. A one panel, three scene cartoon showing, in the first scene
United States. Virginia. Anabaptist BaptismUnited States. Virginia. 18th century. Anabaptist baptism. Engraving, 1841
Leaving SS Ivernia, Boston HarbourSS Ivernia was built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Launched in 1899 by the Cunard Line company to act as an intermediate ship catering for the vast immigration
Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, New YorkImmigrants await their turn at the Naturalisation Office, New York, America
Inspection of immigrants at Ellis Island, AmericaImmigrants are inspected at Ellis Island, America
Emigration of the Russian Jews from LiverpoolEmigration of the Russian Jews - the doctor examining steerage passengers before their departure from Liverpool. A scene on board the Guion liner Wisconsin, in the Mersey. Date: 1891
The Fairbridge SocietyAdvertisement for The Fairbridge Society, a charity founded by Kingsley Fairbridge in 1909 for the furtherance of child emigration to the colonies to help orphans
South Africa - Transvaal - Chinese Coolies in a Compound
USA - Ellis Island and Immigration Station - Ellis Island and Immigration Station. From 1892 to 1954, over twelve million immigrants entered the United States through the portal of Ellis Island
United States. 19th century. Union Pacific Company. Railway Station. Engraving in the newspaper Frank Leslies in 1869. Colored
Myanmar - Yangon - Rowe and Cos Premises - later the Immigration Office. Date: circa 1910s
USA & Pauper Labour / 1892The American working man asks Uncle Sam to spare him from European pauper labour Date: 1892
New York City, USA - Ellis Island. Date: circa 1910s
Immigrants arrive in Ellis Island, America
Advertising on a bus for Immigration to Canada by the Canadian Government Colonization Company, America Date: 1900s
Steerage passengers on an emigrant ship, a familyA family group of steerage passengers on an emigrant ship out of Liverpool to New York, 1896. The journey began in London with an emigrant train from Euston to Liverpool. Date: 1896
