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Title:

Forgotten Ellis Island [DVD] : the extraordinary story of America's immigrant hospital / Boston Film & Video Productions LLC ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; produced, written & directed by Lorie Conway.

Format:

[DVD] :

Publisher:

Distributed by PBS Home Video,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 57 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Ellis Island Hospital.
Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
United States--History--History--20th century.
Hospitals--Admission and discharge--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)
Registers of births, etc.--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)
Documentary television programs.
Historical television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
DVD videodisc.

Other Authors:

Conway, Lorie, 1954-
Gould, Elliott.
Boston Film & Video Productions.
WGBH Educational Foundation.
PBS Home Video.

Notes:

Documentary. Title from container. Narrator, Elliott Gould. Originally broadcast on television in 2008.

Summary:

In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital on Ellis Island, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island and were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.

ISBN:

9780793670246
0793670241

OCLC:

(OCoLC)301983667

UPC:

841887010252

Locations:

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

NWPC663 -- Nissen Public Library (Saint Ansgar)

TVPD862 -- Louise & Lucile Hink -Tama Public Library (Tama)