Approximately 20 percent of immigrants inspected at Ellis Island were temporarily detained, half for health reasons and half for legal reasons. When America entered World War I in April 1917 ...

Ellis Island, located just off the southern tip of Manhattan, is accessible by ferry. Since the nearby Statue of Liberty and ...

The United States has the largest number of immigrants ever recorded, at well over 50 million, legal and illegal combined.

Henry Hastings Curran ferried away from his post of Immigration Commissioner at Ellis Island, to which three years ago he brought deep knowledge, experience, keen intelligence. Next day ...

Where Ellis Island continued to thrive as a port of entry, ice and the First World War impacted immigration volumes in Philadelphia. “There was a lot to that mystique of having every immigrant ...

Discover inspiring immigrant journeys from early settlers to modern refugees whose courage and remarkable contributions have ...

From 1892 immigrants were taken to Ellis Island in New York to be 'processed'. They received a medical inspection and if they failed they were sent back to where they came from. For these ...

The Inspection Room at Ellis Island in New York circa 1910 ... in response to the growth of industrial capitalism after the Civil War. At that time, U.S. workers suffered exploitative labor ...

The Feature Profile Test, in the collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, was administered to immigrants at Ellis Island in the early 20th century. Those who failed to ...

Current estimates put the figure of actual immigrants who passed through the Station at about 300,000. Comparatively, Ellis ... War II prisoners of war. In 1946, the site was finally closed down and ...

Approximately 20 percent of immigrants inspected at Ellis Island were temporarily detained, half for health reasons and half for legal reasons. When America entered World War I in April 1917 ...