Ellis Island

By Wilton S. Tifft

Subjects: Emigration and immigration, History, Government policy, United states, emigration and immigration, Pictorial works, Emigration and immigration, government policy, Ellis Island Immigration Station (New York, N. Y.), Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)

Description: In 1990 a completely restored Ellis Island was rededicated by the National Park Service as a national monument and reopened for public use. For more than sixty years, from 1892-1954, the buildings on this small island in New York Harbor hosted the greatest migration in modern history. Indeed the story of Ellis Island is the story of American immigration. - Prologue.