The story of Ellis Island. / Willard A. Heaps.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heaps, Willard A., 1908-1987.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.).

United States--Emigration and immigration.

United States.

Emigration and immigration.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 152 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Seabury Press, [1967]

Summary:

A record of the years that Ellis Island served as the immigrants' introduction to America, describing what many Europeans felt and saw upon arrival and the procedures on the island before immigrants were allowed to enter New York.

Contents:

The gateway

Emigration from Europe

Leaving the old world

Voyage to the future

First encounter with the new world

On the threshold

Meeting the doctors

The final barrier

The detained and rejected

Improving the welcome

Stemming the flood

From Ghost Island to national monument.

Notes:

"The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus printed under title on half-title page.

"First Edition."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-146) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.l

Potok Collection copy has underlines and marginal marks.

OCLC:

472941