#ellis island

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Immigrants eat their first Christmas dinner in the United States, Ellis Island, December 25, 1920.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images

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Photograph of the U.S. Immigrant Building at Ellis Island

Record Group 79: Records of the National Park ServiceSeries: Building Specifications and Contracts Relating to Ellis Island

This item is a photograph of the main building on Ellis Island while under construction.

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Anonymous. An immigrant family looks at Manhattan. Ellis Island. New York. August 13. 1925

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[theluigianapurchase]

fic idea im unwell about but will never write bc im lazy:

Ian & Mickey are immigrating to the US in the 1900s (Ian from Ireland & Mickey from Ukraine) (they wrote letters while they were living in separate countries i haven't decided how they met yet) and they have to get through all the Ellis Island screenings and have to lie about ians bipolar and try and get through together

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Connecticut/New York Trip: Day 3

🗽Statue of Liberty🗽

Registry Room of Ellis Island

This gay couple was brought to you by the Immigration Act of 1990 (not actually)

🕶️Souvenir Sunglasses🕶️

Observation Tower at the Empire State Building

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“Registry – Ellis Island” (1974)

Phil Buehler Photography

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NewYork Ellis Island - Mamiya RB67

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Statue of Liberty

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the triangle shirtwaist factory was 9/11 for women

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Jersey City. March 2024.

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The Kohn family at Ellis Island, 1904. They arrived in the aftermath of the Kishinev pogrom, where the father’s sister had been murdered.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Immigrant children sit side by side on a window ledge at the overcrowded immigration station at Ellis Island, September 24, 1920.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[todaysdocument]

Letter from the Commissioner of Immigration to the Commissioner General of Immigration Regarding Race Classifications for Immigration

Record Group 85: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization ServiceSeries: Subject and Policy FilesFile Unit: Wright and Crater's Investigation of Immigrant Arrival Procedures on Ellis Island

OFFICE OF U. S. COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION,

New York, N. Y.

June 26, 1898.

Hon. T. V. Powderly,

Commissioner-General of Immigration

Washington, D. C.

Sir:

Under date of June 18th, you appointed the undersigned a Committee to devise a plan in connection with our immigration statistics which will designate not only the empire, kingdom, or republic, from which immigrants come, but the province or other territorial division of the same; also showing where the alien was born, the language he speaks, the religion he professes, his occupation, condition in life, and every other question that will give information concerning immigration.

On Thursday, the 23rd Inst., the Committee met as instructed, and organized with Assistant Commissioner Edward F. McSweeney as Chairman, and Dr. M. V. Safford, as Secretary.

In making our classification in accordance with instructions given us, we have availed ourselves of all the sources of information at our command, and wish to gratefully acknowledge the great assistance given us by some of the officials of the service whose former residence among the various foreign races we were trying to classify, and consequent knowledge of the social, industrial and religious conditions which prevailed in the countries from which such races respectively come, were of the greatest value to the Committee.

In submitting the new scheme for immigration statistics it should be stated, that your Committee has proceeded on the assumption that the object of such statistics is to show the kind of people that come to this country arranged according to some order or classification which will furnish an approximately accurate means for estimating, from the known race characteristics of each order or class, its industrial and social value to this country.

Although, for this purpose, the present system of grouping immigrants according to political boundaries, appears inadequate, still it has not been deemed wise to abandon it altogether, but rather to make it subservient to a classification according to races which, though perhaps not recognized strictly as such, yet may be wisely so regarded in order to accomplish the objects contemplated by the instructions to your Committee.

In some instances, such as that of Hebrews, religion has been resorted to as a means of distinguishing race, but, in general the mother-tongue spoken is the criterion by which such classification has been made, since it constitutes the chief bond of social and domestic union which holds peoples together in all [complete document and transcript at link]

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Frederic Brenner, Ellis Island, 1996 Deb Jensen

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In 1927, Captain Jack Harkness arrived on Ellis Island as an emigrant to America so he could search and destroy an alien virus. ("Immortal Sins", Torchwood: Miracle Day, TV)