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Ellis Island interviews : in their own words / Peter Morton Coan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coan, Peter M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.).
- United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service--Officials and employees--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service.
- Immigrants--United States--Interviews.
- Immigrants.
- Interviews.
- Biography.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Emigration and immigration.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Facts on File, [1997]
- Summary:
- The years hetween 1820 and 1931 saw the United States experience its greatest wave of immigration. Between 1892 and 1954, more than 66 percent of immigrants to America came through Ellis Island. The majority of Americans today are the descendants of pioneering ancestors from that period. Here then are firsthand accounts by the last surviving immigrants and others of the hardships they endured, experiences they recalled, and the wonder and amazement they felt seeing the Statue of Liberty upon their arrival at Ellis Island - the proof that America, their dream, was real.
- Contents:
- Ellis Island employees
- Italy
- The British Isles
- England
- Ireland
- Scotland
- Wales
- Northern Europe
- Poland
- Germany
- Austria
- Eastern Europe
- Russia, Lithuania & the Ukraine
- Greece
- Czechoslovakia
- Hungary
- Romania
- Scandinavia
- Sweden, Denmark, Norway & Finland
- Western Europe
- France, Spain, Portugal & the Netherlands
- The Middle East
- Syria, Armenia, Turkey & Palestine
- Appendices.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0816034141
- 0816035482
- OCLC:
- 36417765
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