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~ Memoirs - 1900 ~



../../images/bb011.gif  Leah's Family Links: "The Diary of Joseph Marecek
../../images/bb011.gif  Ancestors in the Americas: Angel Island Immigration Station
../../images/bb011.gif  A Tribute to the Swedish American Line, 1914-1975
../../images/bb011.gif  Whitey's Grace Log, 1937
../../images/bb011.gif  Larry Driscoll's Memories From a Transatlantic Passenger
../../images/bb011.gif  The WWWII years: Crew member Harry T. Wildman's Journal, 1943
../../images/bb011.gif  The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
../../images/bb011.gif  The Swedish American Line


../../images/bb011.gif  Leah's Family Links: "The Diary of Joseph Marecek"
  • The ship Koln, departed from Bremen, Germany, 13 July 1906, stopped in England, Baltimore, Maryland and finally Galveston, Texas.



    • ../../images/bb011.gif  Ancestors in the Americas: Angel Island Immigration Station: Poetry 1910 - 1940
  • Chinese immigrants, between 1910 and 1940, wrote these poems, on the walls of the Angel Island Immigration station located in the San Francisco bay.



    • ../../images/bb011.gif  A Tribute to the Swedish American Line, 1914-1975
  • "Life as a Crew Member On board the Kungsholm, Autumn of '68"



    • ../../images/bb011.gif  Whitey's Grace Log, 1937
  • Voyages on ships from the Grace Line as told by a member of the crew.



    • ../../images/bb011.gif  Larry Driscoll's Memories From a Transatlantic Passenger:
        "Eastbound to Europe -Passenger journal"
  • This journal provides a glimpse of a journey on the United States. It is the account of an eastbound crossing in May of 1953.



    • ../../images/bb011.gif  The WWII years. Crew member Harry T Wildman's Journal, 1943
  • Crew Member Harry T Wildman's journal



    • ../../images/bb011.gif   The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
  • Balch Institute's Steerage Experience tour!
  • Russian East-Asian Steamship Company, Russian-American Line-- emigrant account, 1908.



    • ../../images/bb011.gif  The Swedish American Line
    1. Life as a Crew Member - On board the Kungsholm, Autumn of '68:
    2. MS Kungsholm sailed from Göteborg, Sweden,
      bound for New York on Friday, August 30, 1968,
    3. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/7894/crew.html



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