Introduction: Video

Audio Documents

Audio -- Bertha Devlin 1923 from Ireland - Home in Ireland - Farm life - Learning to sew

Audio -- Bertha Devlin 1923 from Ireland - Leaving Home - "American Consul" 1st elevator

Audio -- Bertha Devlin 1923 from Ireland - Requirements

Audio -- Bertha Devlin 1923 from Ireland - Leaving Family

Audio -- Bertha Devlin 1923 from Ireland - "Why did you leave Ireland?"

Audio -- Bertha Devlin 1923 from Ireland - The crossing

Audio -- Bertha Devlin 1923 from Ireland - More about the crossing

Audio -- Bertha Devlin 1923 from Ireland - What we brought with us - more details

Audio -- Bertha Devlin 1923 from Ireland - "What were the accommodations like?"

Audio -- Bertha Devlin 1923 from Ireland - "coming into New York"

Audio -- Bertha Devlin 1923 from Ireland - Arriving at Ellis Island

Audio -- Bertha Devlin 1923 from Ireland - Medical Exam

Audio -- Bertha Devlin 1923 from Ireland - Time at Ellis

Audio -- Bertha Devlin 1923 from Ireland - "What did they give you to eat on Ellis Island?"

Audio -- Bertha Devlin 1923 from Ireland - First impressions of this country

Audio -- Bertha Devlin 1923 from Ireland - Arrival in Boston and going to work

Audio -- Bertha Devlin 1923 from Ireland - Expectations of America

Audio -- Bertha Devlin 1923 from Ireland - US Citizenship and returning to Ireland for a visit

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - Home in Italy

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - Father had visited US

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - Impressions of America

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - Father was corporal in US Army WWI - kids became citizens

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - The journey to America

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - Arriving on Columbus Day - October 13

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - On the ship

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - Arriving to Ellis Island - Doctors / Booths

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - Bathrooms and electricity at Ellis

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - Processing through Ellis

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - Arrival in Boston

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - Homecoming dinner

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - School

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - Working in a woodworking shop

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - Married an "American Girl"

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - Woodworking with an organ company

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - Mention of some of the organs he worked on

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - Citizenship papers

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - Ever wish to return

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - I had two beautiful jobs

Audio -- Victor Tartarini - Will you sing us a song?

Images from "Passage to America," "Leaving the Homeland," and "Through America's Gate"

Image -- Buttonhook of the Type Used by Ellis Island Physicians for Trachoma Examination

Image -- Immigrant Inspection Card (1925)

Image -- Chalk Markings

Image -- Board of Inquiry Room: Interior View [1]

Image -- Board of Inquiry Room: Interior View [2]

Image -- Board of Inquiry Room: Interior View [3]

Image -- Dr. Howard Knox: Steamship Puzzle Intelligence Test

Image -- Workingmen! Which Do You Want? American or European Wages!

Image -- Boston Citizens League: Monster Mass Meeting to Protest Against Restrictions of Immigration

Image -- Puck Magazine: Looking Backward: They Would Close to the New-Comer the Bridge that Carried Them and their Parents Over.

Image -- Puck Magazine: The Modern Moses

Image -- Puck Magazine: The U.S. Hotel Brady Needs a "Bouncer"

Image -- Puck Magazine: The Fool Pied Piper

Image -- Judge Magazine: The High Tide of Immigration--A National Menace

Image -- Union Pacific Railway Company Posters (February 1887)

Image -- Westward Ho! The Great Land Grand of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Northern Railway, Now Incorporated with the Great Northern Railway Line is Now Open for Settlement

Image -- North Dakota Settlement Poster

Image -- Nebraska B&O Railway Lands

Image -- National Line, S.S. America. 6,000 Tons.

Image -- Cunard Line: New York, Liverpool.

Image -- Red Star Line: Anversa New York.

Image -- Holland America Line: Southampton to New York.

Image -- Immigrant Passport [Danish Female]

Image -- Immigrant Passport [Male] (ca. 1923)

Image -- Immigrant Passport [Italian Female] (ca. 1922)

Image -- Immigrant Passport [Scandinavian Family of Eric Flinck] (ca. 1923)

Image -- Eating

Image -- Great Hall

Image -- Inspection

Image -- The Famine in Russia: Searching Villages for Hidden Stores and Stolen Grain

Image -- Brown Brothers: Immigrants Landing at Ellis Island (ca. 1900)

Image -- Inspection Room, Ellis Island, New York (ca. 1910-1920)

Image -- New York, N.Y., Immigrants' Landing, Ellis Island (ca. 1910-1920)

Image -- Ellis Island, New York Harbor: Main Building Looking North (ca. 1930s)

Image -- Ellis Island, New York Harbor: Kitchen & Laundry Buildings and Main Building, Looking Northeast (ca. 1930s)

Image -- Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island: General View of Statue Looking Northwest

Image -- Emigrants at the Gates P.O., Custer County

Image -- Immigrants on Atlantic Liner (Dec. 10, 1906)

Image -- Eye Examination at Ellis Island (ca. 1913)

Image -- Emigrants coming to the 'land of promise' (ca. 1902)

Image -- Awaiting Examination, Ellis Island (ca. 1907-1921)

Image -- Immigrants just arrived from Foreign Countries--Immigrant Building, Ellis Island, New York Harbor (ca. 1904)

Image -- Italian immigrant family at Ellis Island (1910)

Image -- Landing at Ellis Island

Image -- Immigrants at Ellis Island (ca. 1907-1917)

Image -- Homes for Immigrants. Inducements Offered in West Tennessee. (1869)

Image -- Choice farm lands for sale! The Illinois Central rail road company is now prepared to sell about 1,500,000 acres of choice farming lands in tracts of 40 acres and upwards, on long credits and at low rates of interest (1857)

Image--Choice farm lands for sale! The Illinois Central rail road company is now prepared to sell about 1,500,000 acres of choice farming lands in tracts of 40 acres and upwards, on long credits and at low rates of interest (1857)

Image -- Immigration figures for 1903 (From data furnished by the Commissioner-general of immigration. Comparison of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1902 and 1903. (Pamphlet from the Immigration Restriction League, No. 38, 1903)

Image-- Immigration figures for 1903 (From data furnished by the Commissioner-general of immigration. Comparison of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1902 and 1903. (Pamphlet from the Immigration Restriction League, No. 38, 1903)

Image-- Immigration figures for 1903 (From data furnished by the Commissioner-general of immigration. Comparison of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1902 and 1903. (Pamphlet from the Immigration Restriction League, No. 38, 1903)

Image -- Extracts from the report of the Commissioner general of immigration for the year ending June 30, 1903. (Pamphlet from the Immigration Restriction League No. 39, 1903)

Image -- Extracts from the report of the Commissioner general of immigration for the year ending June 30, 1903. (Pamphlet from the Immigration Restriction League No. 39, 1903)

Image -- Extracts from the report of the Commissioner general of immigration for the year ending June 30, 1903. (Pamphlet from the Immigration Restriction League No. 39, 1903)

Image -- Extracts from the report of the Commissioner general of immigration for the year ending June 30, 1903. (Pamphlet from the Immigration Restriction League No. 39, 1903)

Image -- Stereoscopic views of streets below 14th Street in Manhattan: Automobile Sightseeing (ca. 1860-1925)

Image -- Stereoscopic views of streets below 14th Street in Manhattan: A Street in the Tenement District (ca. 1860-1925)

Image -- Stereoscopic views of streets below 14th Street in Manhattan: Chinatown, New York City (ca. 1860-1925)

Image -- Stereoscopic views of streets below 14th Street in Manhattan: New York City and Vicinity (ca. 1860-1925)

The United American, A Magazine of Good Citizenship December 1925.

Image -- The United American, A Magazine of Good Citizenship: Cover (1925)

Image -- The United American, A Magazine of Good Citizenship: Table of Contents (1925)

Image -- The United American, A Magazine of Good Citizenship: Two Christmas Poems [Martha Banning Thomas: "The Romance of the Tree," and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "King Olaf's Christmas"] (1925)

Image-The United American, A Magazine of Good Citizenship: H. J. Langoe Shattering the Ramparts of Strife (1925)

Image--The United American, A Magazine of Good Citizenship: H. J. Langoe Shattering the Ramparts of Strife (1925)

Image -- The United American, A Magazine of Good Citizenship: A.C. Strange: Becoming an America (1925)

Image--The United American, A Magazine of Good Citizenship: A.C. Strange: Becoming an America (1925)

Image -- The United American, A Magazine of Good Citizenship: Editorial ["Liberty Bell to Ring Once More"; "To Transport Immigrants Free"] (1925)

Image--The United American, A Magazine of Good Citizenship: Editorial [Thomas Dreier: "The Secret of Success"; "Earth's Greater Army"; "Human Events and Political Bands"] (1925) ;

Image--The United American, A Magazine of Good Citizenship: Editorial [Thomas Dreier: "The Secret of Success"; "Earth's Greater Army"; "Human Events and Political Bands"] (1925)

Image -- The United American, A Magazine of Good Citizenship: Björnstjerne Björnston: The Blessing (1925)

Image -- The United American, A Magazine of Good Citizenship: Björnstjerne Björnston: The Blessing (1925)

Image -- The United American, A Magazine of Good Citizenship: Atheists Organize to War on All Religions (1925)

Image--The United American, A Magazine of Good Citizenship: Atheists Organize to War on All Religions (1925)

Image -- The American Patriot: American Citizens! We appeal to you in all calmness. Is it not time to pause?(1852)