Images

Beauty Grace Speed Power: Patroness of Travel, the Spirit of Modern Railroading Beckons into the Fairyland of the Rockies (1920s).

How Science Aids the Traveler (1920s)

Summer Excursion Routes (1882)

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

Immigrant Inspection Card (1925)

Chalk Markings

Board of Inquiry Room: Interior View [1]

Board of Inquiry Room: Interior View [2]

Board of Inquiry Room: Interior View [3]

Dr. Howard Knox: Steamship Puzzle Intelligence Test

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

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

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

Puck Magazine: The Modern Moses

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

Puck Magazine: The Fool Pied Piper

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

Union Pacific Railway Company Posters (February 1887)

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

North Dakota Settlement Poster

Nebraska B&O Railway Lands

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

Cunard Line: New York, Liverpool.

Red Star Line: Anversa New York.

Holland America Line: Southampton to New York.

Immigrant Passport [Danish Female]

Immigrant Passport [Male] (ca. 1923)

Immigrant Passport [Italian Female] (ca. 1922)

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

Eating

Great Hall

Inspection

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

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

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

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

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

Ellis Island, New York Harbor: Kitchen & Laundry Buildings and Main

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

Emigrants at the Gates P.O., Custer County

Immigrants on Atlantic Liner (Dec. 10, 1906)

Eye Examination at Ellis Island (ca. 1913)

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

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

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

Italian immigrant family at Ellis Island (1910)

Landing at Ellis Island

Immigrants at Ellis Island (ca. 1907-1917)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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

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: Cover (1925)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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