Annual Report of the Commissioner General of Immigration to the Secretary of Labor. Fiscal Year Ending June 30 1920.

Pamphlet, 8vo, printed wrappers, 454pp. Lacking rear wrapper, front wrapper detached, and torn and chipped at the edges, but not affecting text, spine mostly gone, title and first several pages partially detached, and signatures partially separated (but still connected) normal aging. Not a perfect copy, with its share of flaws, but the data is present, and it is in relatively decent shape.This annual report includes a mountain of data and statistics, during one of the most substantial periods of immigration to the United States. There is information on the occupations, point of origin, races, gender, and literacy of immigrants. Interestingly, on Mexican immigration, it points out that because of the proximity of the border with that country "it offers perhaps the most favorable opportunities for unlawful entry." One of the many charts, shows between 1908 and 1920, by a pretty wide margin, the largest number of immigrants during this period came from Southern Italy.