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Image Collection / Roland Marchand / Immigration / Arrival

	Façade, Ellis Island. Copyright holder unknown. Donated to collection courtesy of Norman Zack Project. Our thanks to the Norman Zack Project. 8.12.5
	Immigrants with suitcases, Ellis Island. Copyright holder unknown. Donated to collection courtesy of Norman Zack Project. Our thanks to the Norman Zack Project. 8.12.5
	Immigrants penned up by nationality on Ellis Island. On an average day, 4000 newcomers were processed, but 3000 of them had to stay overnight. c. 1910. Copyright holder unknown. Edwin Levick photo. New York Public Library, 1211 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10036. In Eds. of Time-Life Books, This Fabulous Century, 1900-1910, 1970, pp. 74-5. 8.12.5
	Ellis Island, main registration room, second floor. Late afternoon scene in dark shadows, after restoration. Roland Marchand photo, Jan. 1, 1991. 8.12.5
	Ellis Island, second floor, dark shadows; view of main registration room. After restoration. Roland Marchand photo, Jan. 1, 1991. 8.12.5
	Ellis Island; external view of main building. Roland Marchand photo, Jan. 1, 1991. 8.12.5
	Ellis Island, 1969. Deserted for decades, its many offices were only tombs for broken furniture and its walls were slowly shedding flakes of paint. Wilton S. Tifft photo. Copyright Wilton S. Tifft. Courtesy of Wilton S. Tifft Photography, PO Box 209, East Smithfield, PA 18817. Email: Wil@Tifft.com. All rights reserved. With thanks to Mr. Tifft. In Bernard A. Weisberger, The American Heritage History of the American People, 1971, p. 347. 8.12.7
	Quarantine paddlewheeler carrying passengers released from quarantine, at last about to enter the golden door; main quarantine hospital on Staten Island. 1890. Copyright holder unknown. Staten Island Historical Society, 441 Clarke Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306. In Oliver O. Jensen, American Album, 1968, p. 250. 8.12.5
	Ellis Island from the harbor. Copyright holder unknown. William Williams Collection, U.S. History, Local History & Genealogy Division, New York Public Library, 1211 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10036. Our thanks to the New York Public Library. In Allon Schoener, Portal to America, 1967, p. 31. 8.12.5
	Inspection Room, Ellis Island, 1910-20. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540. LC-D4-73001. Donated to collection courtesy of Norman Zack Project. Our thanks to the Norman Zack Project. 8.12.5
	Immigrants buy railroad tickets to the US hinterland. Ellis Island. Copyright holder unknown. Donated to collection courtesy of Norman Zack Project. Our thanks to the Norman Zack Project. 8.12.7
	Immigrants waiting to be transferred, Ellis Island, October 30, 1912. Copyright holder unknown. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540. LC-USZ62-11203. Donated to collection courtesy of Norman Zack Project. Our thanks to the Norman Zack Project. 8.12.5
	Prof. Marchand at site of old Castle Garden Immigration Depot, Music Hall, and Fort. In Battery Park, New York City. Roland Marchand photo, Jan. 1, 1991. 8.12.5
	Castle Garden and Battery (before building of the Statue of Liberty), with Upper and Lower Bays of New York. Probably before 1855, before building of immigration depot. Currier and Ives. Courtesy of The Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave. at 103rd St., New York, NY 10029. Our thanks to the Museum. In Walton Rawls, A Great Book of Currier and Ives' America, 1979, p. 145. 8.6.3
	Foundations of old Castle Garden at time of fort. Shown as of Jan 1, 1991. Roland Marchand photo, Jan. 1, 1991. 8.12.7
	View from Ellis Island of Manhattan. The list of names of those who came through Ellis Island was bought by families as part of financing of the restoration. Early evening scene. Roland Marchand photo, Jan. 1, 1991. 8.12.7
	The main building of Ellis Island, 1903. Copyright holder unknown. W. Evans-Gordon, "The Alien Immigrant," 1903. In Oscar Handlin, A Pictorial History of Immigration, 1972, p. 183. 8.12.5
	"A family of English immigrants arrive in the New World, 1908." Sherman Collection, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20240. In Oscar Handlin, A Pictorial History of Immigration, 1972, p. 187. 8.12.5
	The English arriving in Virginia, drawing. New York Public Library, 1211 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10036. In Oscar Handlin, A Pictorial History of Immigration, 1972, p. 27. 8.6.3
	Charles Ulrich, "In the Land of Promise - Castle Garden," 1884. In New York's Castle Garden's waiting room, immigrants got their first impression of America. Courtesy of The Corcoran Museum of Art, 500 17th St., NW, Washington DC 20006. All rights reserved. Our thanks to the Corcoran. In Mary Cable and Eds. of American Heritage, American Manners and Morals, 1969, p. 306. 8.6.3
	Woman being given health examination by physicians at Ellis Island. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528. In Bernard A. Weisberger, The American Heritage History of the American People, 1971, p. 278. 8.12.5
	New arrivals awaiting their turn at Ellis Island, 1920. Copyright holder unknown. Corbis Corp., 710 Second Ave., Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98104. United Press International photo. In Oscar Handlin, A Pictorial History of Immigration, 1972, pp. 282-3. 8.12.5
	"Three immigrants on Ellis Island, about 1910, looking across the bay at the Statue of Liberty." Copyright holder unknown. Brown Brothers, 100 Bortree Road, P.O. Box 50, Sterling, PA, 18463-0050. In Oscar Handlin, A Pictorial History of Immigration, 1972, p. 328. 8.12.5
	Italian family seeking lost baggage, Ellis Island, 1905. Lewis Hine photo. Lewis Hine Collection. Courtesy of The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, 900 East Ave., Rochester, NY 14607. All rights reserved. Gift of Photo League, Inc., New York, NY. Our thanks to the George Eastman House. In Beaumont Newhall, History of Photography, 1839 to the Present, 1949, p. 173. 8.12.5
	Pictorial journalism: "Attack on the Quarantine Establishment" in Harper's Weekly, 1858. "For years the existence of a quarantine hospital on Staten Island has been a grave injury to the city and to the island, breeding pestilence on the latter...and occasioning every year yellow fever panics which inflicted severe injury on the trade of the port. A commission, appointed by the governor, had done nothing about removing the source of trouble, and the Staten Islanders took matters into their own hands. On Sept. 1, at nine o'clock in the evening, a large party, 'disguised and armed,' attacked the hospital from two sides, removed the patients, and set the buildings on fire." Harper's Weekly, Sept. 11, 1858. In John A. Kouwenhoven, Columbia Historical Portrait of New York, 1953, p. 270. 8.6.3
	"A portion of the great examination hall in Ellis Island, 1904." Copyright holder unknown. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540. LC-USZ62-15539. Underwood & Underwood photo. In Oscar Handlin, A Pictorial History of Immigration, 1972, p. 183. 8.12.5
	Immigrants landing in New York City, 1851. Brown Brothers, 100 Bortree Road, P.O. Box 50, Sterling, PA, 18463-0050. Oscar Handlin, A Pictorial History of Immigration, 1972, p. 114. 8.6.3
	The Great Migration, 1880-1930. Immigrants awaiting either sailing or processing at point of entry. Copyright holder unknown. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540. In Oscar Handlin, A Pictorial History of Immigration, 1972, p. 175. 8.12.5
	The interior of Castle Garden. The view is of the great hall in which immigrants were processed. See also IM-B-13. Harper's Monthly, April 1871. In Oscar Handlin, A Pictorial History of Immigration, 1972, p. 105. 8.6.3
	Castle Garden at Battery Park, New York, 19th century. Copyright holder unknown. New York Public Library, 1211 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10036. In Oscar Handlin, A Pictorial History of Immigration, 1972, p. 105. 8.6.3
	Ellis Island, 1905. Copyright holder unknown. William Williams Collection, U.S. History, Local History & Genealogy Division, New York Public Library, 1211 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10036. Our thanks to the NYPL. In Allon Schoener, Portal to America, 1967, p. 31. 8.12.5
	The waiting and processing hall on Ellis Island, c. 1910. "The pens at Ellis Island, main hall. These people have passed the first mental inspection." Copyright holder unknown. Edwin Levick photo. William Williams Collection, U.S. History, Local History & Genealogy Division, New York Public Library, 1211 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10036. Our thanks to the NYPL. In Allon Schoener, Portal to America, 1967, p. 37. 8.12.5
	Men's dormitory on Ellis Island, c. 1920. Copyright holder unknown. Underwood & Underwood photo. In Allon Schoener, Portal to America, 1967, p. 39. 8.12.5
	Dining room filled with immigrants on Ellis Island, c. 1905. Copyright holder unknown. William Williams Collection, U.S. History, Local History & Genealogy Division, New York Public Library, 1211 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10036. In Allon Schoener, Portal to America, 1967, p. 38. Our thanks to the NYPL. 8.12.5
	Immigrants eat in the Ellis Island dining hall while awaiting admission to the U.S., 1907. The hall and dormitory accommodated 1000 people, but the arrival of 5000 aliens in a given day was not uncommon, resulting in deplorably crowded conditions. World War I began to check the influx in 1915. Ellis Island opened in 1892. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540. In Wayne Moquin, ed., Makers of America, Vol. 6, William Benton, Publisher, 1971, p. 229. 8.12.5
	A group of newly arrived emigrants from different countries is being buttonholed by several "runners" or swindlers in this 1868 cartoon of Castle Garden landing in New York City. On the right a thief is seen rifling through a woman's handbag. The labor exchange shown in the background was another scene of various swindles that involved employment. Culver Pictures, 150 West 22nd St., Ste. 300, New York, NY 10011. In Wayne Moquin, ed., Makers of America, Vol. 3, William Benton, Publisher, 1971, p. 16. 8.6.3
	Immigrants on Ellis Island wait for the ferry after disembarking from their ship, 1911. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540. LC-USZ62-21220. In Wayne Moquin, ed., Makers of America, Vol. 6, William Benton, Publisher, 1971, p. 228. 8.12.7
	This 1887 cartoon, called "America's Hearty Welcome to the Innocent Emigrant," shows the gauntlet of fraud that immigrants had to run upon arrival in New York City. This line of swindle and theft often extended from before the immigrant arrived until either he was impoverished or reached his final destination. Captions in cartoon: Bogus Expressmen, Heavy Charges, Bogus Employment Agency, $10 Week Salaries, Fraudulent R.R. Tickets, Baggage Seizer, Pretended Relation, Boarding-House Runner, Confidence Operator, Female Swindler, Custom House Extortions. Culver Pictures, 150 West 22nd St., Ste. 300, New York, NY 10011. In Wayne Moquin, ed., Makers of America, Vol. 3, William Benton, Publisher, 1971, p. 14. 8.6.3
	During the Civil War both the North and South recruited heavily among the newly arrived immigrants. In this scene Irish and German immigrants are urged to join the Union Army as soon as they arrive in New York City. Signs advertising a $600 bounty for enlistment are posted in both English and German. Courtesy of The Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave. at 103rd St., New York, NY 10029. Our thanks to the Museum. In Wayne Moquin, ed., Makers of America, Vol. 3, William Benton, Publisher, 1971, p. 53. 8.6.3

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