{"id":12,"date":"2015-07-15T14:18:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T14:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/vestige\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2025-04-25T14:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T14:24:18","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-12\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-12-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"siteorigin-panels-stretch panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-12-0\" data-stretch-type=\"full\" ><div id=\"pgc-12-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-12-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-12-0-0-0\" ><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Digitizing Immigrant Letters<\/h3><div class=\"textwidget\"><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Digitizing Immigrant Letters Project aims to make available on-line letters from the IHRC Archives and other collections (private individuals, partner institutions) that were written between 1850 and 1970 both by immigrants (the so-called \u201cAmerica letters\u201d) and to immigrants (\u201chomeland letters\u201d).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On this portal website you can explore the archive by basic keyword searching the information about the letters (metadata) as well as their translations into English (available for all letters) and transcriptions. You can also browse the letters arranged in sets by the archival collection from which they were selected, and by date or language.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-12-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-12-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_search panel-first-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Search Letters<\/h3><form role=\"search\"  method=\"get\" class=\"search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/\">\n\t<label for=\"search-form-1\">Search&hellip;<\/label>\n\t<input type=\"search\" id=\"search-form-1\" class=\"search-field\" value=\"\" name=\"s\" \/>\n\t<input type=\"submit\" class=\"search-submit\" value=\"Search\" \/>\n<\/form>\n<\/div><div id=\"panel-12-0-1-1\" class=\"so-panel widget\" data-index=\"2\" ><\/div><div id=\"panel-12-0-1-2\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-last-child\" data-index=\"3\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-12-0-1-2\" ><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Advanced Search<\/h3><div class=\"textwidget\"><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For more advanced searching options of all transcriptions and translations, please go to the main repository in<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/umedia.lib.umn.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>U Media Archive<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. 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