[Two Volumes]: Reports of the Immigration Commission: Importing Women for Immoral Purposes ("White Slave Traffic"); Steerage Conditions; Immigrant Banks; Immigrant Homes and Aid Societies; The Immigration Situation in Canada

First edition. Mixed two-volume set. Octavos. [Volume 1]: 61, 46, 167, 218pp., [volume 2]: v, 350pp., and 1 folding plate. In the original publisher's cloth. Light soiling to the boards, about near fine. The first volume contains four senate documents (Nos. 196, 206, 381, 469) from the 61st Congress, 2d Session (1909-10), the second volume contains one senate document (No. 753) from the 3d Session (1910-11). The set thus contains the following three two-part reports (i.e., the partial report and the complete report) issued by Dillingham's Immigration Commission: "Importing Women for Immoral Purposes," a study of the trafficking of women and girls, mostly from Eastern European countries, "Steerage Conditions," a study of the old and new-type of steerage conditions experienced by European immigrants on trans-Atlantic steamers, "Immigrant Banks," a study of the many new nondescript, uncharted, and unincorporated institutions owned and operated by immigrants in the United States; and two additional reports: "Immigrant Homes and Aid Societies," and "The Immigration Situation in Canada." The report on steerage conditions was prepared by Anna Herkner, who crossed the Atlantic three times as a steerage passenger disguised in the tattered peasant clothing of a Bohemian immigrant. A representative assemblage of documents that exemplifies the Commission's focus on regulating and restricting immigration to the United States, especially from eastern and southern Europe. Both volumes are scarce and rarely found together.…