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  2. List of Ellis Island immigrants - Wikipedia

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    The island, in Upper New York Bay, was greatly expanded with land reclamation between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine. The island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965 and has hosted a museum of immigration since 1990.

  3. Annie Moore (immigrant) - Wikipedia

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    Anna "Annie" Moore (April 24, 1874 – December 6, 1924) was an Irish émigré who was the first immigrant to the United States to pass through federal immigrant inspection at the Ellis Island station in New York Harbor. Bronze statues of Moore, created by Irish sculptor Jeanne Rynhart, are located at Cobh in Ireland and Ellis Island. [3]

  4. Ellis Island - Wikipedia

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    Ellis Island is a federally owned island in New York Harbor, situated within the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York. Ellis Island was once the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States. From 1892 to 1954, nearly 12 million immigrants arriving at the Port of New York and New Jersey were processed there. [6]

  5. We nearly lost Ellis Island. We can do more to preserve this ...

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    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, Cary ...

  6. The face of immigration in the early 1900s - AOL

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    One of his lesser known projects consisted of documenting immigrants coming through Ellis island. In 1901 Hine was a teacher at the Ethical Culture School in New York City.

  7. Thousands Are Sailing - Wikipedia

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    The Ellis Island federal immigration station opened on 1 January 1892 and was closed in 1954, with twelve million immigrants processed there by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The song continues, "...but the ghosts still haunt the waves..." These ghosts are the Irish immigrants who did not survive the long ship crossing to America ...

  8. How a surprising detail in bank records helped a historian ...

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    In “Plentiful Country,” historian Tyler Anbinder uses bank records to paint a new picture of the 1.3 million people who fled to the US when famine hit Ireland. ... So Irish immigrants are much ...

  9. State Emigrant Refuge and Hospital - Wikipedia

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    In the year 1870, 14,000 immigrants were admitted to Wards Island. [15] Not all immigrants were satisfied with the services provided by the State Emigrant Refuge and Hospital during this period. In Fall 1850, a scandal erupted after the bodies of two immigrant children were autopsied, something that many Irish Catholic immigrants objected to as ...