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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. ELLTHR_160914_001.JPG: Voices of Leaving
2. ELLTHR_160914_007.JPG: Nature's Wrath
3. ELLTHR_160914_010.JPG: The Great Hunger
4. ELLTHR_160914_017.JPG: "More Things in Heaven and Earth"
5. ELLTHR_160914_019.JPG: A Godly Society
6. ELLTHR_160914_026.JPG: Against Their Wills
7. ELLTHR_160914_028.JPG: The Great Upheaval
8. ELLTHR_160914_035.JPG: Seeking Opportunities
9. ELLTHR_160914_037.JPG: To Gold Mountain
10. ELLTHR_160914_045.JPG: The Promise of Land
11. ELLTHR_160914_047.JPG: New Netherland
12. ELLTHR_160914_069.JPG: Push & Pull Factors
13. ELLTHR_160914_072.JPG: Push
14. ELLTHR_160914_075.JPG: Pull
15. ELLTHR_160914_080.JPG: Through America's Gate
16. ELLTHR_160914_087.JPG: The Route to Ellis Island
17. ELLTHR_160914_095.JPG: The Long Wait
18. ELLTHR_160914_097.JPG: The Last Hurdle
19. ELLTHR_160914_100.JPG: All Their Worldly Possessions
20. ELLTHR_160914_107.JPG: Six-Second Specialists
21. ELLTHR_160914_115.JPG: Chalk Marks
22. ELLTHR_160914_118.JPG: The Line Inspection
23. ELLTHR_160914_127.JPG: The Inspection Maze
24. ELLTHR_160914_130.JPG: Liable to Become a Public Charge
25. ELLTHR_160914_134.JPG: Women and Children
26. ELLTHR_160914_140.JPG: Do You Have a Job?
27. ELLTHR_160914_151.JPG: How Much Money Do You Have?
28. ELLTHR_160914_154.JPG: Graffiti
29. ELLTHR_160914_161.JPG: Anti-immigration forces had been trying to impose a literacy test since the 1880s as a means of restricting immigration. They finally succeeded with the Immigration Act of 1917, passed over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. This law required all immigrants 16 years or older to read a 40-word passage in their native language. These dual-language cards were used by inspectors to test immigrants' literacy.
30. ELLTHR_160914_167.JPG: What Is Your Name?
31. ELLTHR_160914_173.JPG: Language Barriers
32. ELLTHR_160914_178.JPG: Manifests
33. ELLTHR_160914_183.JPG: Beyond a Doubt, Entitled to Land
34. ELLTHR_160914_186.JPG: Changes over 30 Years
35. ELLTHR_160914_192.JPG: The Hearing Room
36. ELLTHR_160914_205.JPG: Board of Special Inquiry
37. ELLTHR_160914_208.JPG: Board of Special Inquiry Hearing Room
38. ELLTHR_160914_212.JPG: About 10% of the persons arriving at Ellis Island were held for a legal hearing. Those thought "likely to become public charges," or suspected of being contract laborers or worse, received yellow cards marked "S.I.," which meant that their cases would be decided by a Board of Special Inquiry. Three boards were usually in session all day, and during busy seasons a fourth board was added. Each board held 50 to 100 hearings daily in the presence of an interpreter and a stenographer. ...
39. ELLTHR_160914_217.JPG: Leaving Ellis Island
40. ELLTHR_160914_222.JPG: Food for the Road
41. ELLTHR_160914_229.JPG: Free to Land
42. ELLTHR_160914_244.JPG: Tickets to All Points
43. ELLTHR_160914_248.JPG: The Money Exchange
44. ELLTHR_160914_268.JPG: Mental Testing
45. ELLTHR_160914_274.JPG: "Weeding Out"
46. ELLTHR_160914_279.JPG: Can You Draw a Diamond?
47. ELLTHR_160914_286.JPG: Dr. Howard A. Knox
48. ELLTHR_160914_290.JPG: Visual Comparison Tests
49. ELLTHR_160914_312.JPG: Women Patients
50. ELLTHR_160914_316.JPG: The Doctor's Diagnosis
51. ELLTHR_160914_319.JPG: The Hospital
52. ELLTHR_160914_322.JPG: Hospital Buildings and Contagious Disease Wards at Ellis Island, 1913
53. ELLTHR_160914_329.JPG: Birth and Death: Records dating from 1900 show that over 3,500 people, including more than 1,400 children, died on Ellis Island. Burials were arranged by either friends or relatives, charity associations, or, as a last resort, by an undertaker contracted by the Immigration Service. Though death was afar more frequent occurence [sic], births too were part of the hospital routine. Over 355 babies were born on Ellis Island.
54. ELLTHR_160914_341.JPG: Public Servants
55. ELLTHR_160914_344.JPG: Fiorello H. LaGuardia
56. ELLTHR_160914_355.JPG: Immigrant Aid Societies
57. ELLTHR_160914_362.JPG: Benevolent Offerings
58. ELLTHR_160914_370.JPG: Labor Contracts
59. ELLTHR_160914_377.JPG: Looking American
60. ELLTHR_160914_384.JPG: Homes away from Home
61. ELLTHR_160914_390.JPG: Marriageable Women
62. ELLTHR_160914_406.JPG: Temporarily Detained
63. ELLTHR_160914_410.JPG: Days in Limbo
64. ELLTHR_160914_416.JPG: Letters and Postcards
65. ELLTHR_160914_423.JPG: Dining
66. ELLTHR_160914_425.JPG: Special Needs
67. ELLTHR_160914_436.JPG: Isle of Hope / Isle of Tears
68. ELLTHR_160914_440.JPG: Excess Quota
69. ELLTHR_160914_450.JPG: Deportees
70. ELLTHR_160914_454.JPG: Graffiti
71. ELLTHR_160914_460.JPG: Through America's Gate
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Wikipedia Description: Ellis Island
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Ellis Island, at the mouth of the New York Harbor, was at one time the main entry facility for immigrants entering the United States from January 1, 1892 until November 12, 1954. It is wholly in the possession of the Federal government as a part of Statue of Liberty National Monument and is under the jurisdiction of the US National Park Service. It is situated in New York City and Jersey City, New Jersey.

Ellis Island was the subject of a border dispute between New York State and New Jersey (see below). According to the United States Census Bureau, the island, which was largely artificially created through the landfill process, has an official land area of 129,619 square meters, or 32 acres, more than 83 percent of which lies in the city of Jersey City. The natural portion of the island, lying in New York City, is 21,458 square meters (5.3 acres), and is completely surrounded by the artificially created portion. For New York State tax purposes it is assessed as Manhattan Block 1, Lot 201. Since 1998, it also has a tax number assigned by the state of New Jersey.
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