LibGuides: Resources in Art and Architecture on the Web: Immigration &amp; Migration

Immigration & Migration

Ellis Island
Images from the Library of Congress.
Ellis Island Photographs
Flickr set from the New York Public Library.
Immigration and Displacement
Resources for teachers, including downloadable image set.
Immigration and Migration
Online exhibition from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Irwin Nash Images of Migrant Labor Digital Collection
Photos of Yakima Valley migrant workers and local agricultural protests of the 1960s-1970s. From Washington State University Libraries.
Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series
All 60 panels of the series are viewable, along with information about the artist. From the Phillips Collection.
Lebanese Aboard the Titanic - Paintings Project
Assembled by the The Lebanese Research Center for Migration and Diaspora Studies (LERC) at Notre Dame University-Louaize to commemorate the Lebanese emigrants who were aboard the Titanic. Available through JSTOR.
Make America Mexico Again
"10 Artworks About Immigration and the Border." Essay on Artspace site.
Migration and Art
Online exhibition from the Tate Gallery.
Migration and Cultural Diversity Images
Public domain images from the collections of the Museums Victoria, Australia.
Milwaukee Polonia
"This digital collection draws from the work of studio photographer Roman Kwasniewski to illustrate the history of Milwaukee Polonia from the early 1900s through the 1940s." From University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee Libraries.
Political Art at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Essay on Panoramas scholarly platform.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Ernst and Phaythoune Kuhn Image Collection
"More than 2000 images taken primarily in northern Laos between 1965 and 1975...Images of people include the Lao as well as the Hmong, Khmu', Phuan, and Pong (Phong), in particular."
University of Wisconsin-Madison Images of Wat Tham Krabok Refugee Camp
Consists of 200 images primarily taken by Pao Lor of the last Hmong refugee camp in Thailand.

Edwin Levick. Uncle Sam, host. Immigrants being served a free meal at Ellis Island. 1902-1913. Museum of the City of New York. Public Domain.