Migrant Collection

Eating Spaghetti
An Italian migrant miner tackling a plate of spaghetti

British Migrants to Australia on board ship - 1920s
In the 1920s, the Australia Government was keen to develop regional areas. Prime Minister Stanley Bruce considered there were three things necessary for this: labour

Bedouin women and children, Egypt or Holy Land
Group of Bedouin women and children, Egypt or Holy Land, c.1880 s

IVANOV, Sergei Vasilievich (1864-1910). Migrant's Death. Realism. Oil on canvas

MIGRANT SETTLERS ATTACKD
Settlers migrating to the west are attacked by Native Americans : the wagons are formed into a tight cluster round which the predators circle. Date: 1876

United States. Virginia. Anabaptist Baptism
United States. Virginia. 18th century. Anabaptist baptism. Engraving, 1841

The Emigrant Ship leaving Britain. 1890

United States. 19th century. Union Pacific Company. Railway Station. Engraving in the newspaper Frank Leslies in 1869. Colored

Spanish emigrants on board a ship heading toward Argentina. Brabant engraving for The Enlightenment, 1887. Colored

Emigration to Australia
Child Emigration, boys at Farm School in Western Australia, c.1916 c. 1916

On US 99 between Bakersfield and the Ridge, en route to San Diego. Migrant man shaving by roadside. See general caption 1. Date 1939 Feb

Camp of migrant workers near Prague, Oklahoma. Lincoln County. Date 1939 June

Migrant child from Arkansas, Berrien County, Michigan. Date 1940 July

Son of white migrant sitting on bumper of their truck, Weslaco, Texas. Notice New Mexico license. Date 1939 Jan

White migrant mother with children. Weslaco, Texas. See general caption 32108-D. Date 1939 Feb

Drought refguees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. The official at the border (California-Arizona) inspection service said that on this day, August 17

Sick migrant child. Washington, Yakima Valley, Toppenish. Date 1939 Aug

Migrant potato pickers. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. General caption number 63-1. Date 1939 Sept

Shacks condemned by Board of Health, formerly (?) occupied by migrant workers and pickers, Belle Glade, Fla. Photograph shows automobiles. Date 1941 Jan.?

While the mothers are working in the fields, the preschool children of migrant families are cared for in the nursery school under trained teachers, Kern migrant camp, California. Date 1936 Nov

Migrant boy. Tulare migrant camp. Visalia, California. Date 1940 Mar

Migrant cotton pickers child who lives in a tent in the government camp instead of along the highway or in a ditch bank. Shafter Camp for migrants, California. Date 1938 Nov

Migrant agricultural workers family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea pickers camp, Nipomo, California

White migrant mother with son, Weslaco, Texas. Date 1939 Jan

White migrant mother with children in front of trailer home, Weslaco, Texas. Date 1939 Jan

Was Nebraska farmer, now migrant farm worker in the West. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. General caption 62-111. Date 1939 Sept

Migrant children, Berrien County, Michigan. Date 1940 July

Migrant fruit worker from Arkansas walking by the post office, Benton Harbor, Michigan. Date 1940 July

Auto of migrant fruit worker at gas station, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Date 1940 July

Migrant agricultural worker. Near Holtville, California. Date 1937 Feb

Two children of a migrant fruit worker from Tennessee, standing before their temporary home. This family of eight is camped in a field near the packinghouse at Winter Haven, Florida. Date 1937 Jan

Coal Board Hostel, Mining
A Coal Board Hostel, near Sheffield, England, housing Italian migrant workers to help in the British coal pits

Bank Hall Colliery, Mining
Bank Hall Colliery, Burnley, Lancashire, England. Study of an Italian migrant worker, fresh from the pit face

Chiffchaff (Morris)
(Phylloscopus rufus, or collybita) The earliest migrant to arrive in England : its name is derived from its distinctive song

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