Inspectors examined the eyes of immigrants at Ellis Island in New York Harbor, but did they change their names? Archives Center at American History 0143.VDF 27016/NMAH One hundred twenty-five ...

Ellis Island was not always the golden right of passage to the American Dream; For many decades, it detained immigrants and suspected criminals.

From Ellis Island to Lampedusa, from Seoul to Senegal, filmmakers have used cinema to chart the hopes, heartbreak and quiet ...

The majority of immigrants who passed through California’s immigration station, Angel Island, were from China and Japan—and tens of thousands of them were detained there.

Audio Tours These tours, which are included with admission, trace the steps of immigrants through the island, and are available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.

Ellis Island is synonymous with immigration, but this island has served many purposes, from an FBI field office to a detention center!

On January 1, 1892, Ellis Island immigration station in New York Harbor opened its doors and welcomed its first immigrant, Annie Moore, who had traveled from Queenstown, County Cork. The Ellis ...

ELLIS ISLAND CONDITIONS; English and Swedish Immigrants Object to Sleeping Quarters. Clergyman Tells Investigators That Ver- min Make Missionary Work There "More Dangerous Than in Africa." ...

Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York. In 2014, she told the BBC about arriving in the US from the Soviet Union in 1930.

This 1924 file photo shows the registry room at Ellis Island in New York harbor, a gateway to America for millions of immigrants. Here we are a century later, still fighting over migrants and the ...

An Irish teenager named Annie Moore was the first immigrant processed at Ellis Island when it opened in 1892. Now her cousin is telling her story onstage, hoping to share a powerful message with a ...