Records were kept of the people who immigrated through Ellis Island. These records included information like age, gender, race, and name. Sometimes the guards would change people's names to make them more simple. This is a picture of one of the records that was taken.
This is one of the ships they used to get there. sometimes diseases were spread on them and hundreds of people got sick. An example is on October 27 1905 when people discovered that two ships, each with about 1,000 people on them had spread smallpox throughout almost the entire ship, people did not notice until it had already spread and they had gotten through there health inspection.
This is a picture of many immigrants coming in to Ellis Island. Ellis Island was a big part of immigration. It's estimated that more than 100 million Americans are directly related to immigrants who came through Ellis Island. Over 12 million passed through it. Many of the immigrants came searching for freedom.
Laura and Emma, Deborah's design team
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