Photograph Title:  GREEK WOMAN 1909 Ellis Island Immigration Station  Photographer:  Sherman, Augustus F., 1865-1925 Source:   Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Greek woman."  The New York Public Library Digital Collections . 1909. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-dcb2-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

GREEK IMMIGRANT WOMEN IN THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST By Helen Papanikolas Published in the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Year 1989 Pages 16-34 ----- "In the migration and settling of the West, women as well as men kept journals.  During their covered-wagon journies, while settling in wildernesses, ploughing the virgin earth, and raising families, they wrote, often poignantly, and enriched our knowledge of those epic days.  In the Greek immigrant past we have but one journal written by a Greek male sojourner in the first years of this century we have no journal by a Greek immigrant woman to tell us of her life far from urban sanctuaries, the Greek Towns of the East. "The reasons are twofold.  Greeks come from an ancient oral tradition.  In song and poetry, they told of their story, what little they knew of the ancients, of the days of Byzantium, and of their bondage, first under the Venetians, then under the Turks.  Secondly, few women in ...