BGuthrie Photos: NJ -- Ellis Island Natl Monument -- Exhibit: Ellis Island Chronicles

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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. ELLCHR_160914_002.JPG: Ellis Island Chronicles
2. ELLCHR_160914_005.JPG: A Harbor Fortress
3. ELLCHR_160914_017.JPG: Ellis Island Chronicles
4. ELLCHR_160914_019.JPG: 1854
5. ELLCHR_160914_024.JPG: Mr. Ellis' Island
6. ELLCHR_160914_028.JPG: Naming an Island
7. ELLCHR_160914_030.JPG: Beneath the Surface
8. ELLCHR_160914_037.JPG: 1897
9. ELLCHR_160914_041.JPG: Welcoming the Immigrant
10. ELLCHR_160914_049.JPG: 1903
11. ELLCHR_160914_055.JPG: Fire and Reconstruction
12. ELLCHR_160914_058.JPG: 1897. Ellis Island in ruins.
13. ELLCHR_160914_061.JPG: 1899
14. ELLCHR_160914_063.JPG: 1899. Front elevation of main building towers. Capped by four fanciful towers, Ellis Island was praised by one local newspaper as "an imposing as well as pleasing addition to the picturesque waterfront of the metropolis."
15. ELLCHR_160914_070.JPG: Boring & Tilton
16. ELLCHR_160914_087.JPG: Brick and Stone
17. ELLCHR_160914_088.JPG: July 21, 1899
18. ELLCHR_160914_091.JPG: April 2, 1900
19. ELLCHR_160914_095.JPG: June 30, 1900
20. ELLCHR_160914_096.JPG: April 20, 1899. Eight months after construction began, masons began building the granite and brick walls.
21. ELLCHR_160914_101.JPG: The Hospital
22. ELLCHR_160914_103.JPG: June 30, 1900
23. ELLCHR_160914_106.JPG: June 30, 1901
24. ELLCHR_160914_108.JPG: 1907. Addition to Ellis Island hospital. While the original hospital had space for 125 beds, the number of immigrants needing care sometimes exceeded 500. Extra patients had to be ferried across the bay to city hospitals. This new wing added more space for beds, but not enough for the growing number of immigrant patients.
25. ELLCHR_160914_111.JPG: 1910. The completed hospital on Island No. 2. Within nine years, the original hospital was extended twice. Offices for US Public Health Service administration and staff were eventually located in the center building, while hospital wards and services were housed in the adjacent wings.
26. ELLCHR_160914_122.JPG: Ellis Island's Tinderbox
27. ELLCHR_160914_129.JPG: Out of the Ruins
28. ELLCHR_160914_134.JPG: 1902. President Theodore Roosevelt vowed to clean up Ellis Island. His new commissioner of immigration, William Williams, won high praise from the press for disciplining the island's officers, some of whom had been accused of extorting bribes from immigrants.
29. ELLCHR_160914_137.JPG: A Clean Sweep
30. ELLCHR_160914_145.JPG: September 16, 1903. President Roosevelt landing at Ellis Island. When newspapers charged that immigrants were being treated harshly on Ellis Island, Williams asked the president to come see for himself. During this visit, Roosevelt called the island's management "admirable."
31. ELLCHR_160914_150.JPG: New Restrictions
32. ELLCHR_160914_153.JPG: A Man with a Heart
33. ELLCHR_160914_159.JPG: ca 1907. Fiorello H. LaGuardia stands in the back row (see arrow) in this group photo of Ellis Island interpreters. In 1910, LaGuardia left the immigration service for politics, and was elected to Congress in 1916. Later, as New York City's mayor (1933-45), the "Little Flower" won national renown for fighting corruption and fostering social reforms.
34. ELLCHR_160914_172.JPG: 1923
35. ELLCHR_160914_174.JPG: Years of Reform
36. ELLCHR_160914_179.JPG: Wartime Occupation
37. ELLCHR_160914_188.JPG: 1919. Alleged Bolsheviks being rounded up for transfer to Ellis Island. The Red Scare saw hundreds of aliens targeted for deportation.
38. ELLCHR_160914_191.JPG: The Red Scare
39. ELLCHR_160914_197.JPG: The Postwar Rush
40. ELLCHR_160914_207.JPG: The Quota Laws
41. ELLCHR_160914_211.JPG: 1924. As this article explains, the National Origins Act of 1924 further cut immigration by limiting admissions from any one nation to 2% of its figure in the 1890 US Census. The bill's sponsor felt no need to conceal the law's discriminatory intent -- to severely limit "less desirable" immigration from Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, and other southern and eastern European countries. In addition, the law barred virtually all immigration from Asia.
42. ELLCHR_160914_219.JPG: 1940
43. ELLCHR_160914_224.JPG: A Deserted Village
44. ELLCHR_160914_228.JPG: End of an Era
45. ELLCHR_160914_244.JPG: Ellis Island Ferry
46. ELLCHR_160914_245.JPG: The Immigrants' Mural
47. ELLCHR_160914_256.JPG: Finishing Work
48. ELLCHR_160914_269.JPG: The Guastavino Ceiling
49. ELLCHR_160914_274.JPG: Expanding the Plant
50. ELLCHR_160914_280.JPG: Contagious Disease Hospital
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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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