Title: Ellis Island /
Authors: Tifft, Wilton S.
Publisher: Contemporary Books,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) History.; Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) History.; United States Emigration and immigration History.; United States Emigration and immigration Government policy History.
Abstract: Text and photographs provide a record of the historical immigration station in New York Harbor.
Contents: Foreword / Lee Iacocca -- Prologue : A study in contrasts -- Chapter 1: The island -- Chapter 2: American immigration: people and policies to 1890 -- Chapter 3: Building and rebuilding an immigration station, 1890-1900 -- Chapter 4: The rise of anti-immigration sentiment -- Chapter 5: The flood tide of immigration, 1900-1917 -- Chapter 6: The decline of Ellis Island, 1917-1954 -- Chapter 7: Limbo, 1954-1974 -- Chapter 8: Restoration and renovation, 1974-1990 -- Chapter 9: New beginnings.