Some black immigrants stopped in New York briefly before continuing on to Canada. For example, when the French West Indies ship SS Korona stopped at Ellis Island in 1911, it carried several dozen ...

Inspectors examined the eyes of immigrants at Ellis Island in New York Harbor, but did they change their names? Archives Center at American History 0143.VDF 27016/NMAH One hundred twenty-five ...

Now the Ellis Island hospital, which treated 1.2 million immigrant patients between 1901 ... In conjunction with the reopening, the French street artist JR has installed paste-ups of archival ...

Processing more than 12 million immigrants throughout its 62 ... Stephen Briganti of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, and French artist JR reveal aspects of Ellis Island’s history ...

The last immigrant to come through Ellis Island was Arne Peterssen, a 48-year-old merchant seaman from Narvik, Norway, and he did so in 1954. From the opening of the first Ellis Island Immigrant ...

Moffitt, then the superintendent of the Statue of Liberty, which along with Ellis Island was undergoing a restoration. Moffitt supported a proposal for sculptures portraying immigrants and knew of ...

The majority of immigrants who passed through California’s immigration station, Angel Island, were from China and Japan—and tens of thousands of them were detained there. A sweeping view of ...