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Ellis Island interviews : in their own words Peter Morton Coan
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks JV 6455 .C53 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coan, Peter M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.).
- Immigrants--United States--Interviews.
- Immigrants.
- United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service--Officials and employees--Biography.
- United States.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 432 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Facts on File, c1997.
- Summary:
- From 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island processed 12 million immigrants. Produced in cooperation with the Ellis Island Research Foundation, "Ellis Island Interviews" collects the oral histories of more than 130 men and women from all socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. The stories of these last original surviving immigrants are enhanced by more than 60 photographs, many never before published.
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives.
- ISBN:
- 0816034141 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
- 9780816034147 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
- 0816035482 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 9780816035489 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- OCLC:
- 36417765
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