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Model of Ellis Island
No full textThis model of Ellis Island shows the buildings that exist todayOriginal file name Photo by 78.jp
The Ellis Island Museum of Immigration
No full textThe present three-story main structure was designed in French Renaissance style. It is made of a steel frame, with a facade of red brick in Flemish bond ornamented with limestone trim. Ellis Island opened to the public in 1976. Today, visitors can tour the Ellis Island Museum of Immigration in the restored Main Arrivals Hall and trace their ancestors through millions of immigrant arrival records made available to the public in 2001.Original file name Photo by 59.jp
Model of Ellis Island Facility between 1893-1902
No full textOne of the Ellis Island models. This one shows the wooden building complex on the expanded Ellis Island in 1897.
This immigration station at Ellis Island was only five years old when it burned to the ground on a summer night in 1897. Remarkably for a facility designed to accommodate up to 10,000 visitors per day�and some overnight�no one was killed. But millions of records were lost.Original file name Photo by 77.jp
One of Four Towers on The Ellis Island Immigration Museum
No full textThe towers are topped by ornate copper domes that were carefully restored by the National Park Service. The openings are filled with a terracotta screen that facilitates air flow.Original file name A tower on the main building at Ellis Island 04-05.jp
Ellis Island in New York Harbor
No full textThe three-story main structure was designed in French Renaissance style. It is made of a steel frame, with a facade of red brick in Flemish bond ornamented with limestone trim.
The building was initially composed of a three-story center section with two-story east and west wings, though the third stories of each wing were completed in the early 1910s. Atop the corners of the building's central section are four towers capped by cupolas of copper cladding.Original file name 389 Ellis Island 3.jp
One of Four Towers on The Ellis Island Immigration Museum (2)
No full textThe towers are topped by ornate copper domes that were carefully restored by the National Park Service. The openings are filled with a terracotta screen that facilitates air flow.Original file name One of the towers on the main building at Ellis Island in New York Harbor 04-05.jp
Ellis Island Hospital Building
No full textThe Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, also known as USPHS Hospital #43, was the United States� first public health hospital, opened in 1902 and operating as a hospital until 1930. Constructed in phases, the facility encompassed both a general hospital and a separate pavilion style contagious disease hospital. The hospital served as a detention facility for new immigrants who were deemed unfit to enter the United States after their arrival; immigrants would either be released from the hospital to go on to a new life in America or sent back to their home countries. The hospital was one of the largest public health hospitals in United States history and is still viewed today as an extraordinary endeavor in the public health fieldOriginal file name A view of the hospital on Ellis Island 04-05.jp
Ellis Island in New York Harbor
No full textThe three-story main structure was designed in French Renaissance style. It is made of a steel frame, with a facade of red brick in Flemish bond ornamented with limestone trim.
The building was initially composed of a three-story center section with two-story east and west wings, though the third stories of each wing were completed in the early 1910s. Atop the corners of the building's central section are four towers capped by cupolas of copper cladding.Original file name 389 Ellis Island 3.jp
Picture of the Ferry Ellis Island
No full textOfficers wearing uniforms greeted the ferryboat as it docked at Ellis Island. They shouted and motioned to the passengers to walk down the gangplank to the main building. The officers passed out numbered identity tags. The people who did not speak English were often unsure what the officers were saying. The commotion was overwhelming. Men, women, and children struggled off the boat carrying trunks, cloth sacks, and suitcases. They followed one another along a path and entered the imposing red brick building.
This is my photo of a picture on display at Ellis Island.Original file name 37.jp
The Registry Room on Ellis Island
No full textToday, the enormous arched windows and immense open spaces of the Registry Room evoke a feeling of grandeur. For the immigrants, however, the room was often a loud, confusing and frightening place. Nearly every day, for over two decades (1900-1924), the Registry Room was filled with new arrivals waiting to be inspected and registered by Immigration Service officers. On many days, over 5,000 people would file through the space. For most immigrants, this great hall epitomized Ellis Island. It was here that immigrants underwent medical and legal examinations. Here they encountered the complex demands of the immigration laws and an American bureaucracy that could either grant or withhold permission to land in the United States.Original file name 392 Hall In Ellis Island (1).jp
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