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 ...

The TV drama 1923, a prequel to Yellowstone, follows the Dutton family as they face significant historical challenges, such as economic turbulence, conflict, and immigration. Among the show's ...

seamen who deserted their ships, and stowaways on the island without bail. After Ellis Island stopped offering Immigration and Naturalization Services in 1954, the government considered Ellis ...

Pennsylvanians can navigate the digital records, for free, at the National Archives Philadelphia location: 14700 Townsend Rd.

Philadelphia’s Ellis Island Washington Avenue Immigration Station ... After months of crowded quarters on a ship, at times ...

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 ...

Ellis Island straddles New York and New Jersey and commemorates the immigrant experience ... many of whom had already spent days and sometimes months on crowded, unsanitary ships to escape persecution ...

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 ...