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Below are links to photographic collections included in Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930. The originals are held by the Fogg Art Museum and Widener Library, Harvard University. Please contact the owning library or museum for additional information.

The Social Museum Collection includes important bodies of work by such pioneering documentary photographers as Lewis Hine (Pittsburgh Survey series, ca. 1908) and Frances Benjamin Johnston (Hampton Institute series, ca. 1900). The collection of photographs resides at the Fogg Art Museum, where it was placed on permanent deposit by the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts in 2002. This entire collection (more than 9,000 works)has been digitized and is available.

This collection of 24 photographs documents the Children's Aid Society's activities at Five Points (Italian) House in New York City. Taken by Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1909, the collection of photographic prints includes a typewritten description of the "History and aims of the Five Points House (Italian) House." The original prints reside in the collection of Widener Library.