THIRD CLASS
IMMIGRANT’S HANDBOOK ELLIS ISLAND
OTHER CENTRAL AMERICA OTHER CENTRAL AMERICA
RUSSIA RUSSI
SWEDEN SWEDEN
SWITZERLAND SWITZERLAND
GERMAN GERMAN EMPIRE EMPIRE
MEXICO
NORWAY NORWAY
MEXICO
JAPA
SOUTH AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA
OTHER ASIA OTHER ASIA
GREECE GREECE
PORTUG PO
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AUSTRIA AUSTRI
AN N EMPIRE EMPIRE TURKEY TURKEY
AN
CHINA
ROUMANIA ROUMANIA
NETHERLANDS NETHERLANDS BELGIUMBELGIUM
CHINA
GAL FRANCE BRITISH NORTHNORTH AMERICA AMERICA FRANCE BRITISH OTHER EUROPE
OTHER EUROPE
EGRO NTENEGRO
A AFRICA
DENMARK DENMARK OTHER COUNTRIES OTHER COUNTRIES AFRICA
UNITED UNITED KINGDOM KINGDOM
AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA,AND TASMANIA, NEW ZEALAND AND NEW ZEALAND
WESTWEST INDIESINDIES
PACIFIC ISLANDS
PACIFIC ISLANDS
SPAIN SPAIN INDIA
INDIA
of the and class second class passengers are After allAfter of theallfirst andfirst second passengers are processed on-board and transported processed on-board and transported by ferryby to ferry the to the mainland, maythe board the barge Ellis Island. mainland, you mayyou board barge for Ellis for Island. Collect any luggage you were able to carry with Collect any luggage that youthat were able to carry with andforget do notyour forget your inspection you andyou do not inspection card. card.
BARGE BARGE
ELLIS ISLAND IS ISLAND
Upon disembarking, Upon disembarking, you willyou be directed will be directed towardstowards a large building a large building where you where willyou enter will a sixty-foot enter a sixty-foot high room high containing room containing pens that pens willthat keep will thekeep the crowd under crowdcontrol under as control you await as you processing. await processing.
GREAT HALL GREAT HALL
EYE EXAMEYE EXAM
You will now quick medical exam. First, Youundergo will nowa undergo a quick medical exam. First, your eyelids will be everted in everted order toin check your eyelids will be orderfor to check for signs of trachoma, a contagious eye disease. Next, signs of trachoma, a contagious eye disease. Next, you will beyou given six-second physical. The doctorThe doctor willa be given a six-second physical. will scan for any signs physical mental illness. will scan for of any signs oforphysical or mental illness. If the doctor hasdoctor any suspicions about yourabout health If the has any suspicions your health you will beyou marked with chalkwith and chalk sent toand thesent second will be marked to the second floor for further testing. If it is determined that you that you floor for further testing. If it is determined are not healthy enough to enough enter the States you States you are not healthy toUnited enter the United will be sent to the hospital. you do not recover you will be sent to theIfhospital. If you do not recover you will be sent back your country ofcountry origin of origin will be to sent back to your
PHYSICALPHYSICAL
COUNTRY COUNTRY OF OF ORIGIN ORIGIN
INTERROGATION INTERROGATION
After passing medical inspection, you will now After passing medical inspection, you will now answer legal questions. In the spanInofthe two minutes answer legal questions. span of two minutes inspectorsinspectors will decidewill whether admit the into decidetowhether to you admit the you into the Unitedthe States. If immigration officials believe United States. If immigration officials believe you have ayou criminal or that youorare a you are a have abackground criminal background that public dependent, you will beyou considered a Special a Special public dependent, will be considered Inquiry Case. The Commissioner will decidewill to admit Inquiry Case. The Commissioner decide to admit you or to force you return country ofcountry origin. of origin. you or toto force youto toyour return to your
HOSPITALHOSPITAL
INTERROGATION INTERROGATION
COMMISSIONER COMMISSIONER
MONEY EXCHANGE MONEY EXCHANGE & RAILROAD ROOM ROOM & RAILROAD
COUNTRY OFCOU ORIG ORIGIN
you immigration have passed immigration at youNow havethat passed inspection, inspection, you need prepare leaveYou Ellismay Island. You may ed to prepare toto leave Ellis to Island. foreign money forpurchase dollars and purchase your change foreign your money for dollars and before boarding a barge for America. ckets train beforetickets boarding a barge for America.
MONEY EXCHANGE XCHANGE RAILROAD ROOM OAD&ROOM
MAINLAND MAINLAND
Once your experience Once youron experience Ellis Island onisEllis complete, Island you is complete, you may meet relatives may meet in Battery relatives Park in Battery or continue Parkon or to continue on to a train station a train where station you will where be able youto will catch be able a train to catch a train that will connect that will you connect to pointsyou throughout to pointsAmerica. throughout America.
PEN TRAIN
NSYLVA PENNS NEW JERSEY WASHINGTON MAINE TENNESSEE
DELAWARE
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GEORGIA
MISSOURI
MINNESOTA
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CONNECTICUT
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FLORIDA
KANSAS
CALIFORNIA
MISSISSIPPI
IOWA
MA OKLAHOMA
MICHIGAN INDIAN TERRITORY
WEST VIRGINIA ARIZONA WYOMING
MARYLAND
ASYLVAN ILLINOIS HAWAII
DISTRIC OF COLUMBIA
SOUTH CAROLINA
NEBRASKA
COLORADO
NEW HAMPSHIRE
WISCONSIN
ASSACHUSETTS OREGON
VERMONT KENTUCKY
NEW MEXICO
NORTH DAKOTA ARKANSAS
NEVADA
RHODE ISLAND
OHIO ALABAMA NORTH CAROLINA
INDIANA SOUTH DAKOTA
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DELAWARE
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GEORGIA
WISCONSIN
CONNECT
This book was designed by Makenzie Kressin at Washington MAINE MISSOURI University in St. Louis in the Fall Semester of 2012. Sources include Images of TENNESSEE America, Ellis Island by Barry Moreno & LOUISIANA KANSAS “Ellis Island, The Immigrant’s Experience” by Rita G. Koman.
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