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

Throughout his decades of reform-inspired projects, Hine revisited his Ellis Island images as his source. The people in those photographs, to him, were also the ones who went on to populate the ...

Between 1892 and 1954, 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.

A feat of 19th-century technical engineering and a beacon for immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, the statue can be admired from several different vantage points around Manhattan, including ...