Charles R Hale on Nostr: During the early 1900s, Ellis Island was handling more than ninety thousand arrivals ...
During the early 1900s, Ellis Island was handling more than ninety thousand arrivals monthly. The detention cells were designed to hold six hundred people; however, at times there were 1,700 immigrants squeezed into a room, pressed together.
An Italian mother and child sit quietly outside a detention cell in this Ellis Island #photo taken by #Lewis Hine in 1905. #lewishine #ellisisland #newyorkcity #immigrants
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