Mulberry (Columbus) Bend Park
Ellis Island
Castle Garden (1855 to 1890)
“provided a standardized way to process immigrants and sheltered them from swindlers…" However, corruption was still present and "eventually led to public outcry and demand for a new solution." [Oocities] |
Ellis Island (1892-1954)
"Island of Hope; Island of Tears" "Ellis Island administrators (from the U.S. Public Health Service and Bureau of Immigration) gave the poor prospective immigrants medical exams and other tests to determine their suitability for citizenship." [Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age] |
Other Projects/Landmarks
"It is one of the greatest of offenses to take all the beauty out of a child's life. [I can] hear the robins sing and see the buds swelling...The poor little ones who live in the city are cut off from those especial agencies that God has made to benefit them." -Jacob Riis, 1895 Lecture
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