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Stereoview: 29214 - Immigrants from Europe at Ellis Island, New York City.

Photograph

DescriptionStereoview card: 29214 - Immigrants from Europe at Ellis Island, New York City. Keystone View Company, Manufacturers, Publishers; Copyrighted, Made in U.S.A. No issue date, circa 1900-1920. (see text on reverse). Card 32 - (29214); also set number on front: 35. Text on reverse (see notes) is copyrighted by Keystone. ---- Hoboken was the American home port in this era for several passenger lines that brought immigrants to America and that were processed at Ellis Island. ---- stereoview / stereo view / stereopticon / stereoscope / photo / photograph

Entry/Object ID

2014.021.0025

Acquisition

Accession

2014.021

Source or Donor

Purchase

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Credit Line

Museum Collections.

Made/Created

Artist

Keystone View Co.

Date made

1900 - 1920

Place

Location

Ellis Island

Notes

Date: 1900-1920

Condition

Overall Condition

Excellent

General Notes

Note

Notes: Exhibition 2014: Hoboken, Ellis Island, and the Immigrant Experience, 1892-1924 ==== Text printed on back of card: 32 — (29214) IMMIGRANTS FROM EUROPE AT ELLIS ISLAND, NEW YORK CITY Ellis Island is a small island belonging to the United States government. It is located in New York Harbor not far from the Statue of Liberty. All immigrants who enter this country through the port of New York are first taken to Ellis Island. Imagine that you are an immigrant on board a steamer just entering New York Harbor. A ferryboat takes you from your ship to Ellis Island where you land. How good it feels to be on shore! How glad you are to be in the “land of the free”! Yet it doesn’t seem so “free” for you are guarded by officers who escort you to a building where you are examined to make sure you are fit to become a possible citizen of the United States. That seems hard, for you feel sure you are “fit.” However, if this country should admit criminals, paupers, and people having contagious diseases, it would not long remain the kind of a country in which you, or anyone, would wish to live! So you see this examination safeguards you as well as protects the people who have already lived in the United States many years and who have helped make it a good country. In the examination rooms you must tell the officers your name, age, occupation, who your friends are, where they live, and what you expect to do. You must have a certain amount of money. Doctors examine you. At last you are told that you have been accepted. How happy you are! A government vessel now takes you to the southern end of the city of New York. You land there and are free to begin life in this great land offering “liberty and justice to all.” Copyright by The Keystone View Company. ==== ==== Original or Copy: Original Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2014-05-11