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Map of Upper New York Bay showing Liberty Island, Ellis Island, and the New Jersey-New York boundary running through the Hudson River. Liberty Island and most of Ellis Island lie on the New Jersey side, near Liberty State Park and Jersey City, opposite Manhattan.
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Aerial view of Ellis Island in Upper New York Bay, showing historic red-brick buildings, green lawns, and the immigration museum surrounded by water. Immigrants aboard the S.S. Patricia Immigrants arrive at Ellis Island (early 20th century) Immigrants wait inside the main immigration building at Ellis Island A health inspection at Ellis Island in 1920 Ellis Island: Dining room Immigration officials conduct a legal inspection at Ellis Island in the early 20th century
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Learn About Former U.S. Immigration Center Ellis Island and Diversity of Immigrants Processed There
Ellis Island and a photo montage of immigrants to the United States.
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Hear a Discussion About the Ellis Island Immigration Museum and the History of the United States' Immigrants
A discussion of the United States' immigrant past, from the documentary Face...
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Map of Ellis Island, Liberty Island, and the New York–New Jersey boundaries
An 1834 interstate agreement gave New York jurisdiction over the original Ellis Island,...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Ellis Island
Ellis Island.
© Felix Mizioznikov/Dreamstime.com
Immigrants aboard the S.S. Patricia
Library of Congress, Washington D.C. (LC-DIG-ds-11826)
Immigrants arrive at Ellis Island (early 20th century)
Library of Congress. Washington D.C
Immigrants wait inside the main immigration building at Ellis Island
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
A health inspection at Ellis Island in 1920
World History Archive/Alamy
Ellis Island: Dining room
Dining room on Ellis Island.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Immigration officials conduct a legal inspection at Ellis Island in the early 20th century
Nature and Science/Alamy
An Italian immigrant family photographed at Ellis Island by Lewis Wickes Hine in 1905
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of David Vestal (1965.349), www.artic.edu
The Great Hall of the former immigration station at Ellis Island
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Health inspection of immigrants on Ellis Island.
Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-7386)
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The Main Building on Ellis Island, 1905.
Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-37784)
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