image of the first page of Chapter Four from the revised 1873 immigration handbook published by the Iowa Board of Immigration

image of the first page of Chapter Three from the revised 1873 immigration handbook published by the Iowa Board of Immigration

image of the first page of Chapter Two from the revised 1873 immigration handbook published by the Iowa Board of Immigration

image of the first page of Chapter One from the revised 1873 immigration handbook published by the Iowa Board of Immigration

Various news reports from towns in East Frisia, which reveal the ongoing interest of German East Frisian immigrants in events in their ancestral home.

Short news items in German from regions outside both the German Empire and the US, as published regularly in the German-language insert of the English-language Journal from Gutenberg, Iowa

Account of Germans in Illinois, their work goals, and ethics

Story of the first Germans to live in McHenry County. They came by ship from Germany, and migrated to the Midwest, because the farm land was promising.

Writer tells Mr. Metcalf that he was wrong for going to the press about a girl marrying a soldier. The writer is defending the girl, saying she has done nothing wrong

This correspondence is connected with the previous letter. This shows how much of the United States was involved in removing German aliens, even the Food Administration. Every department of the federal government was paranoid and was involved in…