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Life in a Suitcase: A History of Ellis Island

Album Description

This album is related to the following lesson plan created by a Mississippi teacher: http://www.msstatetps.org/2018/04/03/life-in-a-suitcase-a-history-of-ellis-island/

Additional resources not from the Library of Congress, but include primary sources. The scholastic activity has the various stops at Ellis Island described with accompanying photos and text.  

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/stop8.htm#tab2-content

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/stop9.htm#tab2-content

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/stop10.htm#tab2-content

9 - 12 Social Studies/History

Awaiting examination, Ellis Island

Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97501087/

Reference note

Date Created/Published: [between ca. 1907 and 1921]
Call Number: LOT 7172 [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Subjects: Immigrants--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1930. Emigration & immigration--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1930. Children & adults--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1930. Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1930.

Detained immigrants on Ellis Island, New York harbor / Drawn by M. Colin.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/93502986/

Reference note

Created / Published: 1893 Aug. 26.
Subject Headings: -  Immigrants--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1890-1900
Notes: -  Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1893 Aug. 26, p. 821.
Repository: Digital Id: cph 3c07166 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c07166

[Operating room in Ellis Island(?) Hospital]

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/95501818/

Reference note

Created / Published: c1909.
Subject Headings: -  Hospitals--New York (State)--New York--1900-1910
-  Operating rooms--New York (State)--New York--1900-1910
Notes: -  J129633 U.S. Copyright Office.
Repository: Digital Id: cph 3c12845 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c12845

Ellis Island. New York City

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2013645890/

Reference note

Created / Published: [New York, N.Y.] : Manhattan Card Pub. Co., [between 1930 and 1960]
Subject Headings: -  Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)--1930-1960
-  Immigration stations--1930-1960
Notes: -  Title from item.
-  Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 038, c17
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ds 03648 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.03648

Examination, Ellis Island

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2014710707/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Bain News Service, publisher
Created / Published: [between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
Genre: Glass negatives
Notes: -  Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
-  Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
-  General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ggbain 30550 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.30550

New York. Ellis Island

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/91482188/

Reference note

Summary: Immigrants walking across pier from bridge.
Created / Published: [between 1909 and 1932]
Subject Headings: -  Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)--1900-1910
-  Immigrants--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1940
Notes: -  National Photo Company Collection.
-  No. 3163E.
Repository: Digital Id: cph 3b46739 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b46739

Final discharge from Ellis Island--

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/93512805/

Reference note

Summary: Immigration officers examining documents and immigrants at Ellis Island Immigration Station.
Created / Published: 1902.
Subject Headings: -  Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)--1900-1910
-  Immigration stations--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1910
-  Immigrants--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1910
Notes: -  Halftone reproduction of photograph in Quarantine sketches, a pamphlet published as advertising by Maltine Co.
Repository: Digital Id: cph 3b39451 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b39451

Immigrants at Ellis Island

Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97501640/

Reference note

Date Created/Published: [between 1907 and 1917]
Summary: Photograph shows a man waiting, with others in queue behind him, at the registration desk in the immigration station on Ellis Island; an immigration official is seated at the desk.
Call Number: LOT 7172 [item] [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes: Title from caption card data and item. Photograph by Bain News Service. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). LC-B2-2109-14
Subjects: Immigrants--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1920. Emigration & immigration--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1920. Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1920.

U.S. inspectors examining eyes of immigrants, Ellis Island, New York Harbor

Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97501532/

Reference note

Date Created/Published: New York : Underwood & Underwood, c1913.
Call Number: LOT 11021 [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes: J179798 U.S. Copyright Office. Reference copy in SPECIFIC SUBJECT FILE - Emigration & Immigration Ellis Island, N.Y. 1907 No. 11164.
Subjects: Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)--1910-1920. Immigrants--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1910-1920. Eye examinations--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1910-1920. Immigration stations--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1910-1920. Emigration & immigration--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1910-1920. Children & adults--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1910-1920. Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1910-1920.

Emigrants [i.e. immigrants] landing at Ellis Island

Link: https://stream-media.loc.gov/ammem/EarlyFilmsofNewYork/10987.mp4

Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/item/00694367/

Reference note

Summary: From a contemporary Edison film company catalog: EMIGRANTS LANDING AT ELLIS ISLAND. Shows a large open barge loaded with people of every nationality, who have just arrived from Europe, disembarking at Ellis Island, N.Y. A most interesting and typical scene. Length 140 feet. Class B. $16.80.
The film opens with a view of the steam ferryboat "William Myers," laden with passengers, approaching a dock at the Ellis Island Immigration Station. The vessel is docked, the gangway is placed, and the immigrant passengers are seen coming up the gangway and onto the dock, where they cross in front of the camera.
Contributor Names: Abadie, Alfred C. (Alfred Camille), 1878-1950, camera.
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published: United States : Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1903.
Subject Headings: -  Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
-  Immigrants--New York (State)--New York
-  Ferries--New York (State)--New York
-  Emigration and immigration
-  Ports of entry--New York (State)--New York
Genre: Short films
Nonfiction films
Actualities (Motion pictures)
Notes: -  H33775 U.S. Copyright Office
-  Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 24July1903; H33775.
-  Duration: 2:20 at 15 fps.
-  Camera, Alfred C. Abadie.
-  Paper print shelf number (LC 1591) was changed when paper positive was rehoused.
-  Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
-  Photographed July 9, 1903.
-  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
-  Source used: Niver's Early motion pictures, p. 89.
-  Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
-  35 mm dupe neg pic renumbered: FPE 5354 to FZA 2309.
Repository: Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu
Digital Id: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/lcmp002.m2a10987

Emigrants coming to the "Land of Promise"

Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97501632/

Reference note

Date Created/Published: c1902.
Call Number: LOT 11021 [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes: Copyright by William H. Rau. No. 4580. Reference copy in LOT 11021; original stereograph NOS 2/97; variant in PR 09 CN 109 (Rau USA New York).
Subjects: Emigration & immigration--1900-1910. Immigrants--1900-1910. Passengers--1900-1910.

Immigrant Landing Station, N.Y.

Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97502077/

Reference note

Date Created/Published: c1905 Feb. 24.
Call Number: U.S. GEOG FILE - New York--New York City--Ellis Island [P&P]
Notes: H57056 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by A. Loeffler, Tompkinsville, N.Y. No. 260. Another copy in LOT 5941-6.
Subjects: Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)--1900-1910. Immigration stations--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1910. Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1910.

Landing at Ellis Island

Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97501086/

Reference note

Date Created/Published: [1902]
Summary: Emigrants coming up the board-walk from the barge, which has taken them off the steamship company's docks, and transported them to Ellis Island. The big building in the background is the new hospital just opened. The ferry-boat seen in the middle of the picture, runs from New York to Ellis Island.
Call Number: LOT 4837 [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes: Illus. in: Quarantine sketches. The Maltine Company, [1902, p. 25].
Subjects: Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)--1900-1910. Immigrants--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1910. Immigration stations--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1910. Emigration & immigration--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1910. Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1910.

Immigrants on an Atlantic Liner

Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97501073/

Reference note

Creator(s): Levick, Edwin, 1869-1929, photographer
Date Created/Published: c1906 Dec. 10.
Summary: Photograph showing a crowd of men and women immigrants on deck of the S.S. Patricia facing camera.
Call Number: SSF - Emigration & Immigration [item] [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes: H86407 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item.
Subjects: Immigrants--United States--1900-1910. Passengers--United States--1900-1910. Crowds--United States--1900-1910. Emigration & immigration--United States--1900-1910. Ocean liners--United States--1900-1910.

New York - Welcome to the land of freedom - An ocean steamer passing the Statue of Liberty: Scene on the steerage deck

Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97502086/

Reference note

Date Created/Published: 1887.
Summary: Immigrants on deck of steamer "Germanic."
Call Number: Illus. in AP2.L52 1881 (Case Y) [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes: Title from item. Reference copy in LOT 7010. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1887 July 2, pp. 324-325.
Subjects: Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)--1880-1890. Passengers--United States--1880-1890. Immigrants--United States--1880-1890. Emigration & immigration--United States--1880-1890.

Immigrants waiting to be transferred, Ellis Island, October 30, 1912

Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97501083/

Reference note

Creator(s): Underwood & Underwood.,
Date Created/Published: New York : Underwood & Underwood, c1912.
Call Number: SSF - Emigration & Immigration--Ellis Island, N.Y.--1912 [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes: J174749 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
Subjects: Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)--1910-1920. Immigrants--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1910-1920. Emigration & immigration--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1910-1920.

Arrival of emigrants [i.e. immigrants], Ellis Island

Link: https://stream-media.loc.gov/ammem/EarlyFilmsofNewYork/13402.mp4

Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/item/00694368/

Reference note

Summary: Depicts scenes at the Immigration Depot and a nearby dock on Ellis Island. Appears to show, first, a group of immigrants lined up to board a vessel leaving the island, then another group arriving at the island and being directed off of the dock and into the Depot by a uniformed official.
Contributor Names: Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published: United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1906.
Subject Headings: -  Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
-  Immigrants--New York (State)--New York
-  Emigration and immigration
-  Ports of entry--New York (State)--New York
Genre: Actualities (Motion pictures)
Silent films
Short films
Nonfiction films
Notes: -  H77049 U.S. Copyright Office
-  Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 9May1906; H77049.
-  Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer.
-  Duration: 3:27 at 15 fps.
-  Paper print shelf number (LC 1946) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
-  Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
-  Photographed April 27, 1906 on Ellis Island, New York and New Jersey.
-  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
-  Source used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 12.
-  Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
-  Copy one 35 mm dupe neg pic renumbered: FPE 5517 to FZA 2329.
Repository: Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu
Digital Id: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/lcmp002.m2a13402