THE FORGOTTEN OF ELLIS ISLAND
Deaths in Quarantine, 1909-1911

 

Photo Gallery for Quarantine Station and Ellis Island

New York Harbor

• Harbor views and some aerial views of Ellis Island, etc.
• Upper Bay
• Lower Bay
• The Layout of Ellis Island

Some Ellis Island Images

• Views of Ellis Island
• From the water
• On the Island
• Internal views
• Immigrants on Ellis Island
• Ephemera
  • Immigrant Tag
  • Visitor's Guide to Ellis Island
  • Menu for Dining Hall on Ellis Island, December 22, 1922
• Quarantine Sketches from the Maltine Company
  • Typical Immigrants
  • Quarantine Station and Laboratory at Quarantine
  • Disinfecting boat, the Doctor's boat; and Doctors boarding steamship
  • Disinfecting apparatus
  • Views of 3 islands
  • New Hospital building on Ellis Island's island #2
  • Registry Room Main Building on Ellis Island
  • Immigrant pen
  • Filing past the doctors
  • Doctor's inspection of suspects for skin diseases
  • Doctor's examination
  • Immigrants shown into pens
  • Detention pens -- waiting for relatives
  • Dentention pen -- awaiting deportation
  • Held at Ellis Island -- awaiting deportation
  • Men's ward in hospital
  • Dining Hall
  • Final Discharge from Ellis Island
  • Landing at Ellis Island
  • Shipping Immigrants
  • The Battery, New York City
  • The Kissing Gates
  • Money Exchange Depot
  • Railway department
  • Baggage Room
  • Shipping immigrants
  • A Family Group
• "Scenes at Ellis Island," Harper's Weekly, Vol. L, No. 2573, April 14, 1906.
• The Layout of Ellis Island
• The Main Immigrant Building
• The Immigrant Hospital
• The Registry Room in the Main Immigrant Building

Hoffman Island

• The island
• Babies Ward on Hoffman Island
• Views of 3 islands
• More pictures of Hoffman and a map of its location

Swinburne Island

• Swinburne Island Hospital
• Views of 3 islands

Staten Island

• Quarantine Landing

Other Sites containing Images of Ellis Island

• Selected Images of Ellis Island and Immigration, ca. 1880-1920 From the Collections of the Library of Congress:
  • http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/070_immi.html
  • You can also find more Ellis Island photos in the Library of Congress collection by using their search engine.
• New York, NY, Ellis Island -- Immigration: 1900-1920
  University of California, Riverside
  Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography
  
• Images from the History of the Public Health Service
  • Page 11: Marine Hospital Service (1970)
  • Page 12: National Quarantine Act (1878)
  • Page 14: Quarantine Boarding Launch "Walter Wyman" (1939)
  • Page 15: Fumigation of ship, hydrocyanic acid gas (New York City, 1913)
  • Page 16: Yellow Fever Detention Camp (Camp E. A. Perry, 1888)
  • Page 17: Yellow Fever Quarantine Inspection of Troops (Spanish-American War, 1899)
  • Page 18: Fumigating/Disinfecting team (New Orleans, 1939)
  • Page 20: Immigration Law of 1891, Ellis Island
  • Page 21: Quarantine Detention (Ellis Island, 1930)
• The August Sherman photographs:
  • His photos in the William Williams Collection located at the New York Public Library and on their web site.
  • The photos of Augustus Sherman — Ellis Island, A Historical Perspective. This report is in PDF format and linked to another web site where it may be slow to load.
• Alice Austen's photographs — Ms. Austen was asked by Dr. Alvah Doty in the 1890s to take photographs of the Quaranine Station which she did over ten years. Her negatives for her photographs are today held by the Staten Island Historical Society.
  • Alice Austen web site
  • Staten Island Historical Society web site

Some Photos and Images Taken While Filming the "ANCESTORS" TV series.