Twelve million immigrants passed through Ellis Island before it closed as an inspection station in 1954. The museum is expanding to tell the history of immigration to the U.S. in more recent decades.

Ellis Island is synonymous with immigration, but this island has served many purposes, ... immigration levels on Ellis Island steadily declined in the 1920s and 1930s.

Ellis Island, the former immigration inspection station, ... By the 1920s, some kind of wall was going to be built, given the powerful opposition to mass Jewish and Catholic immigration.

From the mid-1920s, the bulk of immigrant reception was transferred to Manhattan, and the Ellis Island center was finally closed in 1954. Following extensive restoration, the Ellis Island ...

Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty Images People waiting at the Ellis Island Immigration Station in New York, N.Y., in October of 1950. The Greco family can be seen at right.

Every year millions of Americans visit Ellis Island, ... With so much anxiety surrounding immigration in the U.S. today, ... a potato famine) wracked Sweden from the 1850s to the 1920s.

Ellis Island experienced its busiest day on April 17, 2017. Here is a brief look at how Ellis Island became a major immigration center. ... From the 1920s to 1950s, ...

And even after immigration slowed significantly in the 1920s, popular books and magazines for the next four decades did not typically describe Ellis Island officials changing immigrant names.

In its heyday, about 5,000 immigrants a day moved through Ellis Island. In the 1920s, the government all but abandoned the island’s use as a conventional immigration facility, before closing it ...

The immigration station on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, in use from 1910 to 1940, has often been called the Ellis Island of the West. But to what extent is the Pacific gateway a junior ...

And even after immigration slowed significantly in the 1920s, popular books and magazines for the next four decades did not typically describe Ellis Island officials changing immigrant names.