Arrival of emigrants [i.e. immigrants], Ellis Island

Resource Information

The work Arrival of emigrants [i.e. immigrants], Ellis Island represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Arrival of emigrants [i.e. immigrants], Ellis Island

Statement of responsibility

American Mutoscope and Biograph Company

Title variation

• Arrival of emigrants, Ellis Island
• Arrival of immigrants, Ellis Island

Contributor

• American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
• Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944

Subject

• Docks -- New York (State) | New York
• Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
• Emigration and immigration
• Harbors -- New York (State) | New York
• Immigrants -- New York (State) | New York
• Islands -- New York (State) | New York
• Ports of entry -- New York (State) | New York

Language

eng

Summary

Depicts scenes at the Immigration Depot and a nearby dock on Ellis Island. Appears to show, first, a group of immigrants lined up to board a vessel leaving the island, then another group arriving at the island and being directed off of the dock and into the Depot by a uniformed official

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Cataloging source

DLC

Characteristic

motion picture

Runtime

3

Series statement

• New York at the turn of the century
• American history in video

Technique

live action