Immigrants at Ellis Island [between 1907 and 1917]

1 photographic print. | Photograph shows a man waiting, with others in queue behind him, at the registration desk in the immigration station on Ellis Island; an immigration official is seated at the desk.

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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https://www.loc.gov/item/97501640/

"[Harry A.] #Slattery served in the #FDR administration as Under Secretary of the Interior (1938-1939) and he later headed the Rural Electrification Administration, but he is arguably best known for a 1939-1940 Department of the Interior report formally titled The Problem of #Alaskan Development but popularly known as the “#SlatteryReport,” which proposed ambitious plans for the economic development of #Alaska, including the controversial suggestion that the territory could be used as a place of refuge and productive resettlement for #European #refugees, most prominently Jews fleeing #Nazi persecution.

Slattery’s administrative record, like that of many career public servants of his era, was primarily #secular and #bureaucratic; he was not known as a leader of #Jewish communal life nor as a voice on #Zionist issues prior to the Slattery Report’s association with his name. Rather, his relevance to Jewish #history flows from the report that took his name..."

https://jewishpress.com/sections/features/features-on-jewish-world/a-refuge-for-the-jews-in-alaska/2025/12/31/