There was a time when the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island welcomed the tired, the poor, the “huddled masses yearning to ...

Celebrating the Forest City’s long history of welcoming immigrants and their heritage, the Rockford Symphony Orchestra shares ...

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 Angel Island Immigration Station operated from 1910 to 1940, and, like Ellis Island for the East Coast, it became the symbolic portal for West Coast entry into the United States. Unlike Ellis ...

Ellis Island ceased to be an immigration port in 1954. But while it remains central to one of New York's most iconic images, ...

2018), have become the go-to images used to illustrate the history of immigration to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Leslie Ureña Young Jewess Arriving at Ellis Island ...

From 1892 immigrants were taken to Ellis Island in New York to be 'processed'. They received a medical inspection and if they failed they were sent back to where they came from. For these ...

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Comparatively, Ellis Island received about 12 million throughout ... poetry carvings and writings that were a hidden treasure of American history. The Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation was ...

For the final event in the 2024-2025 Beth and Mike Kasser Patron of the Arts Signature Events Series, the Tucson J in partnership with Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra (SASO), is proud to present ...

and learning about the history of this iconic symbol of freedom. Afterward, the ferry will take you to Ellis Island, where you can spend another 2-3 hours exploring the Immigration Museum.