The Immigration Commission was composed of four senators (including William P. Dillingham and Henry Cabot Lodge), three representatives, and three private citizens. Its reports cover a wide variety of topics: how immigrants affected U.S. industries, cities, and schools; steerage conditions; crime among immigrant groups; immigrant banks; prostitution; charity groups. Also examined are such controversial subjects as "changes in bodily form of descendants of immigrants" and "fecundity of immigrant women."

Use of these reports will be facilitated by a printed guide listing roll contents and locations of the film of the volume breaks. In addition, each volume has a detailed table of contents abstracts of the commission reports, including minority views. This publication will be an important acquisition for any collection in American history, with special value for researchers in twentieth-century social history.

Number of rolls: 17