2014.021

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Museum Collections.

1922 - 1924

Date: 1922-1924

4 in

7 in

Excellent

Notes: Exhibition 2014: Hoboken, Ellis Island, and the Immigrant Experience, 1892-1924 ==== Text printed on back of card: H279—(V23429) ADMITTED IMMIGRANTS LEAVING ELLIS ISLAND FOR THE CITY How glad these people are! They sailed into New York Harbor and were first landed at Ellis Island where they were carefully examined both physically and mentally. They have been accepted. Look at their smiling faces is, carrying their worldly goods in their hands, they go down to the ferry boats which will carry them across the bay to New York City. They look about with eager eyes. Everything is so strange, so different from the old home. Perhaps friends will meet them; perhaps they must go alone to begin the new life. Even in their joy they must feel a little lone-some and even homesick. More than 33,000,000 immigrants have come into America since 1776. And half of that number have come since 1900. More than one and one-half million arrived in the year 1914. In the year 1820, only eight thousand came. When times are good and work is plentiful laborers are needed and great crowds of immigrants come to our shores. When times are hard only a few come. Almost none came during the World War; but when that was over it seemed as if the whole of Europe wanted to run away from its, troubles to the happy United States. In 1921, Congress passed a law admitting only three per cent, of the number of people from a given who are already here. This is often a. hardship, for a man who arrives after the quota from his country is filled must be sent back. After all we are all descendants of immgrants. The Indians are the only native Americans. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. ==== ==== Original or Copy: Original Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2014-06-16