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Ellis Island interviews : immigrants tell their stories in their own words
- Title
- Ellis Island interviews : immigrants tell their stories in their own words / Peter Morton Coan.
- Author
- Coan, Peter M.
- Publication
- New York : Fall River Press, 2004.
- ©1997
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Details
- Description
- xxxii, 432 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- United States
- United States > Immigration and Naturalization Service
- Immigrants
- Employees
- United States > Immigration and Naturalization Service > Officials and employees > Biography
- Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
- Interviews
- Immigrants > United States > Interviews
- United States > Emigration and immigration > History
- Biographies
- History
- Emigration and immigration
- Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Interviews.
- Biographies.
- Note
- "This 2004 edition published by Fall River Press by arrangement with Facts on File, Inc."--Title page verso.
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Ellis Island employees -- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-6971
- ISBN
- 0760753091
- 9780760753095
- OCLC
- 826037987
- Author
- Coan, Peter M.
- Title
- Ellis Island interviews : immigrants tell their stories in their own words / Peter Morton Coan.
- Publisher
- New York : Fall River Press, 2004.
- Copyright Date
- ©1997
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-6971