Ellis Island Era Immigration Images
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Theatre program for Israel Zangwill's 1908 play The Melting Pot.
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A placard marking the Chicago site of the 1886 Haymarket Riot as a National Historical Landmark has been reclaimed by modern-day anarchist admirers of the so-called Haymarket Martyrs.
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Poet Emma Lazarus, author of the famous poem "The New Colossus," which was engraved inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1903.
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Contemporary engraving of the 1886 Haymarket Riot.
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American Communist leaders, including Eugene Dennis, Benjamin Davis, and William Z. Foster, leave the courthouse during their 1948 Smith Act trial.
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The famous immigration station on Ellis Island, New York Harbor.
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Immigrants sail past the Statue of Liberty as they near arrival in New York.
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Newly-arrived European immigrants wait in Ellis Island's Great Hall for inspection and processing.