With contemporaneous engraving "The Good Samaritan" (R.T. Bone del. ; W. Bond sculp.) pasted in as a frontispiece. Bound in contemporary green morocco, boards ruled in gilt with blind-stamped Greek key roll, flat spine titled and tooled in gilt with f...
Publisher:
Printed for the Society by W. Marchant, Ingram-Court, Fenchurch-Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress
Subject (Topic):
Officials and employees, Accounting, Noncitizens, Immigrants, and Charities
"Six French émigrés are grouped at the roadside beside a signpost (right) pointing (left) to 'London' and (right) to 'Dover'. A lean and elderly woman holding a clipped poodle stands with her left hand in the arm of a man wearing a cocked hat with a t...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Photocopy of a typescript memoir by Margarita López y Galarza containing over 20 brief chapters reflecting on her life and identity as a Mexican American, 1983. López y Galarza recounts her family history in Jalcocotán, Mexico and describes her pa...
Description:
Margarita López y Galarza de la Vega Linsley (1916-2000) was born in Jalcocotán, Mexico and immigrated to Sacramento, California with her family in 1920. She earned her bachelor's degree from University of California, Los Angeles and master's degre...
Subject (Geographic):
California., West (U.S.), California, Jalcocotán (Mexico), and Sacramento (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
López y Galarza, Margarita, 1916-2000. and Los Angeles County General Hospital.
Subject (Topic):
Americanization, Education, Elementary, Elementary schools, Health counselors, Immigrant children, Education, Immigrants, Mexican American children, Mexican American women, Mexican Americans, Religion, Railroads, Employees, Ranchers, Women, Race relations, Religious life and customs, and Social life and customs
Autograph manuscript, signed by Clarise Merino, in which Merino defines the goals of Americanization and cultural assimilation of immigrants in the United States. Merino proposes several methods for American women to befriend and mentor immigrant wom...
Description:
Clarise Merino (1905- ) was a teacher born in Arizona.
Subject (Geographic):
United States, United States., and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Merino, Clarise, 1905-
Subject (Topic):
English language, Study and teaching, Foreign speakers, Immigrants, Cultural assimilation, Education, Teachers, Women, and Women immigrants
