Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1949.

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Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1949.

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Correspondents are commissioner Watson Miller, assistant commissioner Henry Hazard, and consultant Hugh Carter. Items relate to the inventorying of Immigration and Naturalization Service records.

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University of Pennsylvania Library

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Carter, Hugh, 1895-

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Hazard, Henry B.

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United States. Immigration and naturalization service

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A federal act of 1882 established procedures for recording immigrants arriving in the United States. The records maintained by federal immigration officials were often called immigration passenger lists of manifests. From the description of Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Savannah, Ga., 1906-1945. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 174142611 Ellis Island, an island in Upper New York Bay, is named for Samuel Ellis, who acquired land on the i...

Miller, Watson B.

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Watson B. Miller (1878-1961) was born in 1878 in Indiana, the son of an engineer who took him all over the world in his childhood. The family settled at Lanham, Maryland, and Mr. Miller became a dealer in Oriental rugs. During World War I, he was a captain in the motor transports division of the Army's Ninth Division. He was elected national vice commander of the American Legion in 1922. He also operated the Red Star sightseeing line and the Derby Office Equipment Co., and office furniture firm ...