Races of Immigrants Fiscal Year 1905
- Title:
- Races of Immigrants Fiscal Year 1905
- Alternate Title:
- Races of Immigrants Fiscal Year 1905
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Grose, Howard B.
- Date:
- 1906
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 1150.01
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_1150_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1900 - 1919
- Subject:
- Bias
Ethnocentrism - Measurement:
- 22 x 25 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- As a "nation of immigrants," Americans have produced persuasive maps addressing the issues of immigration and nationality over most of the country's lifetime. The collection includes a number of these maps published since the 1840s. Some are welcoming, encouraging, and provide advice to immigrants. Some assert that the diversity of our nationalities is a source of strength for the country. And yet others attack immigrants in general, or specific ethnic or religious immigrant groups, particularly Asians, Catholics, and Jews. For the range of these maps, Search > "immigration.”
This map and chart illustrate a book that seems at time adverse to immigration. The frontispiece is a blatantly hostile poem from Thomas Bailey Aldrich, "Unguarded Gates": "Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, And through them presses a wild, motley throng . . . ." Some of Grose's chapter headings seem torn from 21st century nativist politics: "The Alien Advance" - "The Eastern Invasion" - "The Foreign Peril of the City." The map itself gives the appearance of massive immigration, particularly "Italian" and "Hebrew" immigration.
But taken at his word, Grose's intentions are clearly on the other side. He begins the book (at 13-14) with the story of a young immigrant who gained a good education in America and set himself the goal of making the world better. "These are the words of a Russian Jew, and that Russian is a better American, that Jew is a better Christian, than many a descendant of the Pilgrim Fathers. . . . I do not fear foreigners half as much as I fear Americans who impose on them and brutally abuse them. Such Americans are the dangerous enemies to our institutions, utterly foreign to their true spirit. Such Americans are the real foreigners." Grose concludes (at 298) with a plea for Americanization and evangelization: "God has set for American Protestant Christianity the gigantic task of the ages . . . nothing less than the assimilation of all these foreign peoples who find a home on this continent into a common Americanism so that they shall form a composite American nation - Christian, united, free, and great."
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Source:
- Grose, Howard B. 1906. Aliens or Americans? Dayton, Ohio: Home Missionary Society of the United Brethern Church.
- Cite As:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.