In the 1974 film The Godfather Part II, young Vito...  ..., Sicily is processed by immigration officials at Ellis Island . A clerk who doesn't speak Italian writes his nam...  ...t the time was carefully controlled and recorded. Ellis Island officials used written records established before...

Augustus Frederick Sherman was a clerk at Ellis Island from 1892 to 1925. He was also a gifted amateur p...  ...re a national treasure a hundred years later. The Ellis Island Immigration Museum has a selection of Sherman&rsq...

You remember Lewis Hine’s photographs of wor...  ...a sociologist and a teacher. He took students to Ellis Island to photograph the immigrants entering America. Th...  ...o photograph the immigrants entering America. The Ellis Island photographs led him to use photography as a means...  ...e left teaching...