Ellis Island

By Wilton S. Tifft

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

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.