These took place after the new arrivals had deposited their luggage and undergone preliminary ... This image of immigrants in the Ellis Island dining room was taken around 1900.

Photo of the Great Hall, which was the Registry Room for those who passed ... Immigrants can be seen with trunks and luggage at a building near the Ellis Island pier. Photo via NYPL collections.

“These were strange countries to many people,” An immigrant boy helps carry luggage on Ellis Island. Photograph by Paul Thompson, Nat Geo Image Collection Even so, during the early decades of ...

Ellis Island presents 21st-century visitors with two options: explore the island’s rich history in the main hall’s Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration or bear a hard hat and venture ...

Immigrants who passed the first mental inspection wait in pens in the Registry Room, also called the Great Hall. The peak day for immigration occurred April 17, 1907, when Ellis Island received ...

Donors who contribute at least $18.92 to the project — in honor of the year Ellis Island opened — will be able to see their names listed on a digital registry in its renovated baggage room.

Immigrants coming to the New World from Europe had to run a gauntlet of tests at Ellis Island ... soon as they hefted their luggage up the stairs to the registry room: those who arrived huffing ...

It may surprise no one to see names like "The Russo Family" from Sicily, Italy, or Anton Ivanovich Malygin from St. Petersburg, Russia, inscribed on Ellis Island's American Immigrant Wall of Honor ...

Its active years, from 1892 to 1924, had nonetheless been so active that more than 40% of Americans can trace their ancestry back through its terracotta-ceilinged registry room, where 12 million ...