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Ellis Island Immigration Station |
34 |
Receiving Room at Ellis Island |
59 |
Detained for Special Examination |
74 |
An Appeal from the Special Inquiry Board to Commissioner Watchorn |
94 |
The Landing at the Battery in New York |
102 |
A German Family |
128 |
Italian and Swiss Girls |
144 |
A Group of Twelve Different Nationalities |
166 |
Three Types of Immigrants |
180 |
A Group of Immigrants Just Arrived at Ellis Island |
198 |
An Italian Family Crowded in a New York Tenement |
210 |
Four Nationalities |
236 |
Portuguese and Spanish Children |
256 |
An Italian Sunday School in New England |
283 |
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Sketch Maps and Charts |
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Immigration at the Port of New York for 1906 |
32 |
Immigrant Distribution by States for 1905 |
106 |
Immigrant Distribution by Races: |
Scandinavian |
108 |
Canadian and British |
109 |
Irish |
114 |
Germanic |
115 |
French and Iberic |
146 |
Slavic |
171 |
Changes in Sources of Immigration Causing Increase of Illiteracy |
125 |
Countries from which the Slavs Come |
161 |
Distribution of Slavs in the United States |
163 |
Wave of Immigration for Eighty-seven Years |
308 |
Colored Chart of Races of Immigrants for 1905 |
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PREFACE
It is not a question as to whether the aliens will come. They have come, millions of them; they are now coming, at the rate of a million a year. They come from every clime, country, and condition; and they are of every sort: good, bad, and indifferent, literate and illiterate, virtuous and vicious, ambitious and aimless, strong and weak, skilled and unskilled, married and single, old and young, Christian and infidel, Jew and pagan. They form to-day the raw material of the American citizenship of to-morrow. What they