Ellis Island Immigration Experience.
Tender Brings New Immigrants Landing at Ellis Island.
Emigrants coming up the board-walk from the barge, which has taken them
off the steamship companys docks, and transported them to Ellis Island.
The big building in the background the new hospital just opened.
Immigrants on inbound ships that arrived New York were anchored off the Narrows.
Inspectors onboard processed first and second-class passengers, and
those who passed inspection went on to dock at the piers in Manhattan.
Ferries then took steerage passengers to Ellis Island for processing
(along with first and second-class passengers who failed inspection).
The average immigrant spent three five hours on Ellis Island.
Important Dates in Ellis Island History.
11 April 1890: Congress appropriates $75000 to build an immigration
station at Ellis Island.
1 January 1892: The immigration at Ellis Island officially opens.
14-15 June, 1897: Fire destroys Ellis Island Buildings, including records
of immigrants dating back to 1840.
All personds were safely evacuated.
17 December 1900: The new and currently standing main building
opens at a cost of $1.5 million.
1907: Ellis Island has peak number of arrive (Approximately 1.25 million).
1917-1919: Ellis Island serves as a detention center for enemy aliens,
a way station for US Navy personnel, and as a hospital for the US Army.
1919-1954: Serves as a deportation center in addition to it core
purpose as an immigration station.
1920: After WWI, Ellis Island processing 225,206 immigrants.
1924: Mass migration ended.
Immigrants are now inspected their countries of origin.
1939-1949: Portion of Ellis Island used as a Coast Guard Station.
1941-1954: Portion of Ellis Island served a detention center for enemy aliens.
29 November 1954: Norwegian Merchant Seaman Arne Peterssen, the last
immigrant is processed at Ellis Island.
Handling The Immigrant Ellis Island - 1896.
Ellis Island is but a tiny bit of but it has a history all its own.
It was here that the Dutch, and afterwards the early English
governors, stored the towns ammunition.
First Hand Account, Immigrant Immigration Agencies.
The Immigration Question - Study of Migration (1897).
Among the many problems which the rapid and restless progress of civilized
mankind has created in the nineteenth century, the problem of immigration
is not the least interesting.
Immigration History, Statistics, and Emigration Information.
The Landing of the Emigrants Ellis Island (1897).
The finest station of this kind in the possession of the government is the national
successor to Castle Garden, which is located on Ellis Island, New York harbor.
Immigration Process, History Immigration, Steerage.
The Threshold of America - Ellis Immigration Station, 1898.
Ellis Island had to consider planning a fire-proof structure which would
keep immigrants free from all outside interference until discharged, while
affording conveniences to resident relatives or friends to communicate
with them at the proper time.
Immigration Process, Ellis Descriptive Information, Photographs.
The Arrival of the Immigrant the Barge Office – 1898.
Its steamship day at the Barge Office, that turreted building of gray
stone On the Batterys outer wall.
Up the bay a few hours before an ocean liner has been crawling in from some
of the cities of far-distant Europe.
The Great Gateway to America - 1899.
From 16 June 1897, until Ellis Island reopened in December 1900, immigrants
landed at the Barge Office in New York.
During the rebuilding of Ellis Island after the fire of 1897, immigrants
were processed at the Barge Office.
A ship, The Narragansett, was employed to immigrants that were temporarily detained.
This article documents the time were processed at the Barge Office.
A Mornings Scenes At Ellis Island - 1901.
Today the new buildings which are in use, although not entirely completed,
afford ample accommodation for the throngs of foreigners who enter our
country through the Port of New York.
Ellis Island Quarantine Sketches - 1902.
Engravings showing the care of immigrants at the New York quarantine station
on Ellis Island, in all its phases from the arrival on shipboard to the
departure by rail for the far west.
Enormous Flood of from Europe - 1902.
Nearly 150,000 of the peasantries of Europe have already this year landed
in America, so that 1902 promises to hold a record for foreign immigration.
There seems to be no limit to the capacity of the United States to
absorb the European thousands.
In January 18,375 immigrants at Ellis Island, New York.