On Nov. 12, 1954, a main entry point into the United States was closed as immigration station, detention center.

more than twelve million immigrants passed through the U.S. immigration portal at Ellis Island, enshrining it as an icon of America's welcome. That story is well known. But Ellis was also a place ...

Between 1904 and 1926, the American photographer Lewis Hine (1874–1940) photographed countless newcomers at the Ellis Island Immigration Station in New York Harbor. While there, he trained his ...

The Park Service described a typical day at the immigration station: “Immigrants came face to face with inspectors, interpreters, nurses, doctors, social workers, and many others. As a large federal ...

Ureña, assistant curator of photographs at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery ... Hine is famous for his compelling images of immigrants at Ellis Island, of child labor and of New ...

This award-winning immigration documentary is shown in two of the island’s three theaters and is accompanied by a 15-minute introduction by a park ranger. Call 212-363-3200 for schedules and ...

Nearly 12 million immigrants were processed at Ellis Island's immigration station from its opening in 1892 to 1954, when it closed. But the number of immigrants dropped significantly by 1924 ...

About 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island until it was shuttered 70 years ago in 1954. Among them were Isaac Asimov, Josephine Baker, Abe Beame, Irving Berlin, Frank Capra ...

Max Miller of Tasting History prepared a typical meal of what European immigrants at the turn of the 20th Century would eat ...

and for their next passenger. "This question of migration and the gig economy is not only showing up here; it is showing up across the world as sort of the new Ellis Island, so to speak ...

more than twelve million immigrants passed through the U.S. immigration portal at Ellis Island, enshrining it as an icon of America's welcome. That story is well known. But Ellis was also a place ...