Ellis Island
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Immigrants queuing to be admitted into the USA in the early 1900s.
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Ellis Island in New York Harbor, New York, was the gateway to a new life in the USA for over 12 million immigrants between the years 1892 and 1924. In this photograph a woman and her son are wearing numbered tags as they walk down the pier on their arrival.
Island in New York harbour, USA, 1.5 km/1 mi from Manhattan Island; area 0.1 sq km/0.04 sq mi. A former reception centre for immigrants during the immigration waves between 1892 and 1943 (12 million people passed through it from 1892 to 1924), it was later used (until 1954) as a detention centre for nonresidents without documentation, or for those who were being deported. Ellis Island is now a national historic site (1964) and contains the Museum of Immigration (1989).
The US Supreme Court, concluding a lengthy dispute, declared late May 1998 that Ellis Island belonged to New Jersey and not to New York.
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