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A newly arrived immigrant family on Ellis Island, gazing across the bay at the Statue of Liberty. National Park Service, Statue of Liberty NM

The United States of America and its population are shaped by its complex history and particularly its immigration all along the years. Immigration has been essential to the development of… Read more »

This source’s content is one of the twenty-six pages of the report that contains the list of the immigrants who arrived in Ellis Island and were indexed from December 1,… Read more »

      Those items are excerpts of Ellis Island’s organization official document. It gives the number of immigrants who arrived in the US from 1902 to 1910 and delivers… Read more »

This document is the excerpt of a report of 14 pages from the Immigration Service send by the Office of District Director Chicago, Illinois. It contains information about aliens from… Read more »

  This document is a photo of the English class 1914-1915 in the Ford Company taken by the Photographic Department of Ford. This item illustrates one aspect of what is… Read more »

This document is the report of Immigration Service by the Office of the Commissioner of Ellis Island. The two excerpts we are going to focus on are the list of… Read more »

Primary Sources: 1. Office of the US Commissioner of Immigration. “Ellis Island detained immigrant report exhibits on statistics of detained immigrants” Dec 01, 1899 – Mar 31, 1900. Immigration: Records of… Read more »