These photographs show a tiny handful of the more than 12 million immigrants who entered the United States through the immigration station at New York's Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954.

NEW YORK (WCBS) — Ellis Island is best known as the location where millions of immigrants from Europe and Asia arrived in the United States, but less known is that it’s also where hundreds of ...

Between 1892 and 1954, most immigrants arriving in the United States passed through New York’s Ellis Island control center. For those fleeing poverty and war, the “island of tears” was also ...

more than twelve million immigrants passed through the U.S. immigration portal at Ellis Island, enshrining it as an icon of America's welcome. That story is well known. But Ellis was also a place ...

But the Ellis Island narrative is misleading. While early 20th-century immigrants were poor by today’s standards, they were positively selected relative to their home countries — often better ...

Since the Civil War, two towering waves of immigrants have defined American demographics. The first came from Europe in the late 1800s and early 1900s: the Ellis Island era. The second ...

As the very first person to pass through Ellis Island’s immigration station, Moore’s arrival was met with much fanfare and her name was cemented in the history books. However, the story of ...

explore the island’s rich history in the main hall’s Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration or bear a hard hat and venture into its abandoned hospital. Few know that there exists a third ...

On November 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed after admitting millions of immigrants from all around the world into the United States. Cork teen Annie Moore was the first person to go ...