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Discharge from Ellis Island 1902
This is a photo of Immigration officers examining documents and immigrants at Ellis Island Immigration Station. It was their final discharge from Ellis Island.
The first person to pass through Ellis Island was Annie Moore arriving from Ireland on January 2nd 1892 after President Benjamin Harrison designated the island as America's first federal immigration center in 1890. During World War I Ellis Island changed from an immigration portal into a detention center until it's closing in 1954.
The first person to pass through Ellis Island was Annie Moore arriving from Ireland on January 2nd 1892 after President Benjamin Harrison designated the island as America's first federal immigration center in 1890. During World War I Ellis Island changed from an immigration portal into a detention center until it's closing in 1954.
Date & Place:
at Ellis Island in Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey United States
