They arrived as rich and poor, white and non-white, and, without exception, legally. With the gradual decline of such great influxes, Ellis Island finally ceased operating roughly 71 years ago. Yet ...

Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S. -- or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year. All were registered, documented, and ...

Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S. — or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year. All were registered, documented and ...

Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the United States—or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year. All were registered, documented ...

Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S.—or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year. All were registered, documented, and given ...

Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S. — or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year. All were registered, documented, and ...

The 1924 law remained in effect till 1965 and limited postwar immigration from Italy and Greece, but many prewar immigrants ...

Ellis Island closed as an immigration station and detention center. Between 1892 and 1954, more than 12 million immigrants arrived by boat in the United State of America. Ellis Island was the largest ...

On Nov. 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed as an immigration station and detention center. More than 12 million immigrants arrived in the United States via Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954.

The second started with passage of the Immigration Act of 1924, which virtually eliminated immigration from eastern and southern Europe, dominant in the Ellis Island era (1892-1914, 1919-24). But the ...