Immigration & Ellis Island

Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis Island arrivals, tenement life, and the experiences of immigrant communities.

Sample of the collection (25 of 2,157 items)

• Belnoir Island, vignette, 1906 New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. Sugar cane fields on the northwest part of the island. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Christiansted, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. At the waterfront. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. Woman washing clothes in the slum village of Saint Johns. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Williams, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. In a FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower's home. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Christiansted, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands (vicinity). Ruins of an old sugar mill and plantation. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Christiansted, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands (vicinity). FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Williams, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. Child of FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• La Valle, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. At a FSA (Farm Security Administration) group meeting. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• La Vallee, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. At a FSA (Farm Security Administration) group meeting. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Bethlehem (vicinity), Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. Sugar fields. In the background is the Bethlehem sugar mill. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Christiansted, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. At the main square. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Christiansted, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. In the leper colony. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Frederiksted, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. Main street. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Bethlehem (vicinity), Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. Cultivating sugar cane on the Virgin Islands company land. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Bethlehem (vicinity), Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. Cultivating suger cane on the Virgin Island company land. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Bethlehem (vicinity), Saint Croix Island, Virgin Island. Cultivating sugar cane on the Virgin Islands Company land. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. Planting sugar cane on the sugar plantation along the northern coast of the island. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Christiansted, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. Along the main street. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Christiansted, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands (vicinity). At one of the slum "villages". New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Frederiksted (vicinity), Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. At the public health clinic. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Frederiksted (vicinity), Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. Public health clinic. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Frederiksted (vicinity), Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. One of the slum villages. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Bethlehem, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands (vicinity). A Virgin Islands Company housing project. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…
• Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas Island, Virgin Islands. A slum quarter by the waterfront. New York Public Library Photographs, records, and personal documents from the great waves of immigration to New York and the United States, including Ellis…

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