A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed as an immigration station and detention center. More than 12 million ...
The Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration is undergoing a $100 million renovation, which will include new exhibits and accessibility upgrades. The island was used to process more than 12 million ...
It was once known as the gateway to the land of the free, but like everything else in this world, Ellis Island had a darkness to it too. From infectious and contagious disease hosptial wards, autopsy ...
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 ...
Annie Moore was the first immigrant who walked through the doors when Ellis Island opened more than 130 years ago. These days, there are statues of her in Ireland and at the historic US site. Her name ...
Ellis Island, by Małgorzata Szejnert, translated from the Polish by Sean Gasper Bye (Scribe). This “people’s history” comprises intimate views of Ellis Island both from immigrants and from staff, ...
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