NEW YORK PRESENTATION

New YORK

PRESENTATION

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What is it?

By the time Ellis Island closed, in 1954, the number of migrants reached 12 millions. They came to America to escape from poverty and persecution or to start a new life. They travelled by private steamship.

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The first Ellis Island station opened on 1st January 1982 in New York Harbor to manage the increasing number of migrants from Southern and Eastern Europe coming to America.

ELLIS ISLAND

Steerage

First & second class

Voyages could take one or two weeks. Ships divided passengers by wealth and class.

• Everyone else stayed in a space at the bottom of the ship
• These passengers paid around 30$ per ticket
• Overcrowded and unsanitary
• Shared sleeping compartments and no privacy

• First and second class passengers slept in state rooms and cabins
• These passengers paid from 50$ to 90$ per ticket

THE VOYAGES

The steps to entry in the US were two:

Everyone else waited, sometimes for days, for some ferries to take them to the immigration station for processing. Then they had to go to the registry room, which was upstairs to let the doctors catch health problems while people were climbing the stairs. The registry room was also named The Great Hall for its size and here the most migrants fate would be decided.

LEGAL INSPECTION

SIX-SECOND PHYSICAL EXAM

Healthy first and second class passengers were processed on the spot and allowed to enter the United States without setting foot on Ellis Island.

When ships arrived in New York Harbor health officers boarded and looked for signs of disease before anyone was allowed to disembark.

ARRIVALS

ENTERING IN USA

Once the records of the rest of the people were finally reviewed they would be ammited to the US or sent back to their country. Luckily the majority was ammited and after inspection everyone walked down a stair with three aisles: the detained walked down the center aisle, those entering in New York City or headed north walked down the left, and those travelling west or south walked down the right.

STatuE OF LIBERTY

Located in New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable landmarks in the world. Officially called "Liberty Enlightening the World" this statue was a gift to America from French in 1886 as a representation of international friendship.

Finally the statue was complete on October 28th, 1886 and the President Grover Cleveland dedicated the statue of Liberty an event celebrated by bands, parades...

The American people agreed to pay for the pedestal of the statue to stand on, while the French people would fund the statue itself. The statue was completed in France in 1884, almost ten years later was commisioned, but the pedestal was finished in 1886. The statue was trasported in 350 pieces.

The story of the Statue of Liberty began in 1865 when frenchman Eduard de Laboulaye proposed that France should create a monument for the US. Ten years later the sculptor Auguste Bartholdi was commissed to design the statue.

story

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to brathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Sent these, the homeless, the tempest-tost to me I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Emma Lazarus

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Medical exam

Anyone considered a risk to public health was marked with a piece of chalk and taken out of the line to be examinated further. There were signs for every kind of disease.

Legal exam

There where ased 29 identifying questions to the passengers, who passed the medical test, often with the help of an interpreter. If the answer didn't match on the manifest (name, occupation, country of origin) they would be detained. The legal interviews could take as little as two minutes.

The statue depicts a woman in a robe, representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of Liberty. She has a crown on her head with seven points, said to represent the seven seas or the seven continents. She is holding in one hand a stone tablet which reads July 4th, 1776 in Roman numerals, honoring the date of the signing of the Declaration of Indipendence. In her other hand she is holding high a flamming torch covered in gold leaf. This statue itself is covered in a layer of copper less than 2 pennies thick. Originally the color was the one of the copper but then it sarted to oxidize, turning green. The statue wheighs 225 tons and stands over 46 meters high.

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