Ellis Island

These people from Guadeloupe were going to Canada to work as domestic servants

Ellis Island is an island near New York City. It was used for immigrants coming from other countries to the United States from 1892 until 1954. Some immigrants to other countries, like Canada, also went through the island. It is located in Upper New York harbor, north of Liberty Island (Statue of Liberty) and east of Liberty state park.

Ellis Island Media

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  Ellis Island and Manhattan as seen from New Jersey shore in 2020

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  State border after New Jersey v. New York, 1998

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  The bridge to Liberty State Park

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  Ellis Island buildings circa 1893

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  Anti-immigrant cartoon expressing opposition to the construction of Ellis Island (Judge, March 22, 1890)"Mr. Windom, if you are going to make this island a garbage heap, I am returning to France"

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  First Ellis Island Immigrant Station, built in 1892 and destroyed 1897

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  Ellis Island's Immigrant Landing Station, February 24, 1905.

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  European immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, 1915

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  The main building's registry room

• Film by Edison Studios showing immigrants disembarking from the steam ferryboat William Myers, July 9, 1903

• Scenes at the Immigration Depot and a nearby dock on Ellis Island, 1906

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Media related to Ellis Island at Wikimedia Commons