Letters Sent, 1/1/1904 - 5/9/1912

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Letters Sent, 1/1/1904 - 5/9/1912

1/1/1904 - 5/9/1912

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This series consists of pressbooks of outgoing letters to the Commissioner-General of Immigration; immigration officials at Philadelphia and Ellis Island; to state and private charitable institutions; and private individuals. The letters relate to the administration of immigration laws and regulations regarding aliens including matters relating to entrance, arrest, deportation, and detention of persons; the treatment of aliens in state and private welfare institutions; the enforcement of the alien contract labor law; and requests for additional personnel. The series also includes copies of sworn statements made by aliens arrested on charges of violating immigration laws. From January to May 1912 some of the communications originated at the immigration office in Gloucester City, New Jersey.

15 linear feet, 3 linear inches

eng, Latn

National Archives at Philadelphia

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National Archives at Philadelphia

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Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)

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Ellis Island is a former immigration inspection station. As the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 to 1954, it processed approximately 12 million immigrants to the United States in New York Harbor, within the states of New York and New Jersey. Prior to the immigration station it was owned by the Ellis family before the US government used it as a fort and a naval magazine. Between 1905 and 1914, immigration officials reviewed about 5,000 immigrants per day during peak times a...