Courtesy of the New York Public Library Digital Collections. Before the European colonists came to America, Algonquin-speaking Native American tribes used Ellis Island as a home base to harvest food.

The first Greeks who arrived in the New World had to go through Ellis Island, which became the designated immigration station ...

New York’s Ellis Island was, from 1892 to 1954 ... to a mother being ripped from her family and shipped back to the Old World. Immigrants were turned back often enough, for a variety of reasons ...

Immigrants just arrived, awaiting examination, Ellis Island, New York harbor. Underwood & Underwood. Courtesy Library of Congress. Arrival and Departure In 1991, Historic Preservation magazine ...

A Jewish immigrant landed at Ellis Island in New York ... posed for one young Jewish family in New York, American culture turned to the Old World – the European countries from which white ...

But to truly appreciate its size and significance, you’ll want to visit the statue and Ellis Island while on your NYC vacation. If you’re departing from the New York side, you’ll hop on a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — New York and New Jersey disagreed over more than 160 years of history Thursday in a unique trial at the Supreme Court to determine which state is the home for most of Ellis Island.