Immigrant Stories Project, 2006.

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Immigrant Stories Project, 2006.

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Reminiscences collected by the Fox Valley Symphony as part of Ellis Island: The Dream Of America project, describing the immigrant experience of several residents from the Fox Valley, Wisconsin, area whose ancestors had come through Ellis Island or who were immigrants themselves. The recollections discuss topics such as labor, travel, and countries of origin several of which also include copies of family photographs.

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Wisconsin Historical Society Archives

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Wisconsin Historical Society Archives

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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...

Fox Valley Symphony

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