1. A Brief Introduction

2. Before Ellis Island’s immigration system was built, over 8 million immigrants came through Castle Garden Immigration Depot – run by New York State officials On April 18, 1890 the Federal Government assumed responsibility for immigration operations $75,000 built the first Federal immigration station known as “Ellis Island” Ellis Island opened with celebration on January 1, 1892 Located in the Upper New York Bay America’s busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 – 1954

3. It is estimated that 12 million people were processed through Ellis Island Peak year was 1907 with 1,004,756 immigrants processed April 17, 1907 was the all-time daily high when 11,747 immigrants arrived When they arrived, immigrants spent two to five hours on the island Asked 29 questions About 2% were denied Today, over 100 million Americans can trace their ancestry back to Ellis Island

4. Singers Yma Sumac Arthur Tracy The Trapp Family Singers Actors / Actresses Leslie Fenton Cary Grant Novelists Isaac Asminov Frances Winwar Comedians Bob Hope Sig Ruman Henry Youngman Chefs Ettore Boiardi (Chef Boyardee) Dancers / Artists Pearl Primus Joseph Stella Poets Claude McKay War Heroes Michael Strank

5. Ettore Boiardi 1897-1985 Pearl Primus 1919-1994

6. After the Winter Some day, when trees have shed their leaves And against the morning's white The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night, We'll turn our faces southward, love, Toward the summer isle Where bamboos spire to shafted grove And wide-mouthed orchids smile. And we will seek the quiet hill Where towers the cotton tree, And leaps the laughing crystal rill, And works the droning bee. And we will build a cottage there Beside an open glade, With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near, And ferns that never fade. Claude McKay 1889-1948

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8. Questions? Comments? How is this similar to the immigration processes now? How is it different? Do you think it was easier then than it is now? How so? or Why not?