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Author:

Coan, Peter M.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Facts on File,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

xxxii, 432 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
Immigrants--United States--Interviews.
United States.--Immigration and Naturalization Service--Officials and employees--Biography.
United States--History.--History.
Immigranten.
United States--History.--History.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Ellis Island employees -- Southern Italy -- Northern 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.

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.

ISBN:

9780816035489 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0816035482 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780816034147 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
0816034141 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)36417765

LCCN:

97002892

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