Com'r Wallis & immigrants [1 June 1920]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows Frederick Albert Wallis (1869-1951) who served as Fourth Deputy Police Commissioner of New Yok City, U.S. Commissioner of Immigration, a New York City Department of Corrections Commissioner and a Democratic National Convention delegate. Wallis is at Ellis Island, talking to immigrants. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017)

Ellis Island is an island in New York Harbor, within the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York. Owned by the U.S. government, Ellis Island was once the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States. From 1892 to 1954, nearly 12 million immigrants arriving at the Port of New York and New Jersey were processed there; as many as two-fifths of Americans may be descended from these immigrants. It has been part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument since 1965 and is accessible to the public only by ferry. The north side of the island is a national museum of immigration, while the south side of the island, including the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, is open to the public through guided tours.

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Com'r. Wallis & immigrants [1 June 1920]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows Frederick Albert Wallis (1869-1951) who served as Fourth Deputy Police Commissioner of New Yok City, U.S. Commissioner of Immigration, a New York City Department of Corrections Commissioner and a Democratic National Convention delegate. Wallis is at Ellis Island with immigrants. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017)

New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States. It is located at the southern tip of New York State on New York Harbor, one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with its respective county. It is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy.

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