Found 3 collections related to Americanization

John Foster Carr (1869-1939), lecturer and author, promoted the education and Americanization of immigrants, particularly Italian immigrants. He was founder and director of the Immigrant Publication Society; was active in the American Library Association (ALA), promoting the "Books for Everybody" campaign in New York City; and helped with the ALA's book drive for U.S. armed forces, ca. 1918-1920. He wrote a series of guides to the U.S. for Italian, Jewish and Polish immigrants; and wrote or edited other books and articles on immigration, libraries, Thomas Jefferson, and the Declaration of Independence. Collection contains correspondence, materials relating to "Books for Everybody" campaign, writings by Carr and his family, photographs, and printed matter. Correspondence, 1909-1940, concerns his activities as director of the Immigrant Publication Society, his series of guides for immigrants, speaking engagements, and personal and family matters. "Books for Everybody" materials include legal and financial records, notes, memoranda, and scrapbook of clippings. Writings by Carr consist of manuscripts and typescripts of his speeches on immigrants and Americanization, drafts of articles and projected biographies; galleys and printed copy of book by his wife Emma Lilian Dana; and manuscripts of sermons, 1801-1830, by his great grandfather, Rev. John Clarke. Also, cardfiles, notes, photographs of immigrants and art work of Sarah J. Eddy, and printed materials. less

Collection consists of Mandel's correspondence, writings, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings. Includes writings and exercises as a student at New York University (Class of 1907); materials for teaching English to Hungarian immigrants through a correspondence course conducted by the Mandel family starting in 1905; literary papers including his guide-books entitled Amerikai Kalauz (1913); papers from his journalistic career with various Hungarian-American periodicals and as an officer of the Foreign Language Press Association; and 1925 diary. Correspondence concerns his welfare work and the Americanization of Hungarian immigrants through organizations such as the Society of Hungarian Engineers and Architects, 1901-1926, and the Hungarian Free Lyceum of New York, 1910-1922; and his active role in promoting Kossuthville in Polk County, Florida, a resettlement project for Hungarian farmers, 1924-1948. Scrapbook, 1915-1928, contains pasted newspaper articles in English and Hungarian, many written by or concerning Mandel, and a small amount of ephemera. The bulk, dating 1925, are from the New York paper Amerikai Magyar Nepszava, regarding Kossuthville, Florida. less

Papers document Speranza's career as an attorney involved with the problems and working conditions of Italians in the United States and his subsequent work as a journalist and author whose writings included works on immigration, Italo-American relations and World War I. less