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| Notes about this image: | 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. |
| Citation: | 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 |
| Standard: | 8.12-7.00 the new sources of large-scale immigration and the contribution of immigrants to the building of cities and the economy; the ways in which new social and economic patterns encouraged assimilation of newcomers into the mainstream amidst growing cultural d |
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