Ellis Island
By: Wilton S. Tifft ; foreword by Lee Iacocca.
Publisher: Contemporary Books
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780809244188
Subjects: Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History
Description: Text and photographs provide a record of the historical immigration station in New York Harbor.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-232) and index.
Floor plans on lining papers.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Lee Iacocca; title: Prologue : A study in contrasts; title: The island; title: American immigration : people and policies to 1890; title: Building and rebuilding an immigration station, 1890-1900; title: The rise of anti-immigration sentiment; title: The flood tide of immigration, 1900-1917; title: The decline of Ellis Island, 1917-1954; title: Limbo, 1954-1974; title: Restoration and renovation, 1974-1990; title: New beginnings; title: Author's note