Immigrants just arrived, awaiting examination, Ellis Island, New York harbor ... Some, like the tuberculosis ward, were open to the sea, where a gentle New York harbor breeze cleansed their ...

Immigrants just arrived, awaiting examination, Ellis Island, New York harbor ... Some, like the tuberculosis ward, were open to the sea, where a gentle New York harbor breeze cleansed their ...

Ellis Island straddles New York and New Jersey and commemorates the immigrant experience. Millions of American stories began at Ellis Island; by some estimates, 40% of people in the country today have ...

A feat of 19th-century technical engineering and a beacon for immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, the statue can be admired from several different vantage points around Manhattan, including ...

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 ...