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Ellis Island interviews : immigrants tell their stories in their own words / Peter Morton Coan.

Coan, Peter M. (Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1435158768
  • ISBN: 9781435158764
  • Physical Description: xxxii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Fall River Press, [2015]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Reprinted annualy since 2004 by Barnes & Noble, currently published under its imprint Fall river Press" -- author's website.
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject:
United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service > Officials and employees > Biography.
Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
Immigrants > United States > Interviews.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History.
Genre:
Biographies.

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