Encountering Ellis Island : how European immigrants entered America / Ronald H. Bayor.

"America is famously known as a nation of immigrants. Millions of Europeans journeyed to the United States in the peak years of 1892-1924, and Ellis Island, New York, is where the great majority landed. Ellis Island opened in 1892 with the goal of placing immigration under the control of the federal...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:How things worked.
Main Author: Bayor, Ronald H., 1944-
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Series:How things worked.
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Physical Description:x, 168 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book

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