The Ships of Ellis Island

by William H. Miller

The federal immigration station on Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, opened on 1 January 1892. In the peak years of immigration to the United States, between 1905 and 1914, an average of 1 million people were processed each year at Ellis Island, the peak coming in 1907, when on 17 April alone over 11,000 migrants passed through the station on their way to a new life. After the First World War, a series of Immigration Acts, especially that of 1924,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445651629
• ISBN13: 9781445651620
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.7"