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

 

Miscellaneous Web Sites Relating to Ellis Island
and/or Quarantine Immigration Stations

QUARANTINE IN THE U.S.A.

Manifest Markings: A Guide to Interpreting Passenger List Annotations, by Marian L. Smith Historian, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, with the assistance of Elise Friedman, Flora Gursky, and Eleanor Bien

CDC Quarantine -- History of Quarantine in the US

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dq/history.htm

THE NATIONAL QUARANTINE web site

Article originally published in Harper's Weekly, 26 August 1893. "It will be recalled that a year ago there was almost a panic in the United States...." Click here to read the article in its entirety.http://www.fortunecity.com/littleitaly/amalfi/100/quaran93.htm

Quarantine Stations (Plague houses: History of the "Plague houses" in the harbour of New York.

This web page gives a timeline about Quaratine in New York Harbor.  http://www.ellisisland.se/english/quarantine_islands_newyork.asp

Images from History

The Public Health Service quarantine boarding launch "Walter Wyman" in New York City harbor. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/phs_history/14.html

Images from History -- main page

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/phs_history/contents.html

Disease Control and Prevention

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/phs_history/10.html

Division of quarantine, CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dqmq/ Public Health Mission

Ellis Island

ELLIS ISLAND AND MUSEUM

http://www.ellisisland.org/

Wall of Immigrants

http://www.wallofhonor.com/

The National Parks Service: Ellis Island

http://www.nps.gov/elis/index.htm

The History Channel: Ellis Island

http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland/

Liberty State Park, New Jersey

http://www.libertystatepark.com/

The New Colossus (1883)

This is the poem by Emma Lazarus which appears on the base of the Statue of Liberty. http://www.libertystatepark.com/emma.htm

ELLIS ISLAND - 1892

http://www.fortunecity.com/littleitaly/amalfi/100/ellis.htm

Farbers: Immigration Notes and Sources

http://www.enteract.com/~lfarber/immigration.html

Ellis Island: Gateway to America

http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5101/

From Cobh to Ellis Island: Continuing the Saga of John Kennedy from Mayo Abbey

http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/MyoAlive/Mag0698/cobh.htm

William S. Tift's Photographs of Ellis Island

http://www.tifft.com/ellis.html (NOTE: These are copyrighted!)

Immigration: The living mosaic of people, culture & hope

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/index.html

Scholastic: Immigration, Stories of Yesterday and Today

http://teacher.scholastic.com/immigrat/index.htm

The History Channel: Ellis Island

http://www.history.com/topics/ellis-island contains audio/video clips

Activity 2: A Visit to Ellis Island

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/lyddie/lyddiesg2.html

Electronic Field Trip: Ellis Island Unit

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/letsnet/frames/bigideas/b1/b1u1.html

Ellis Island Postcards

http://www.fortunecity.com/littleitaly/amalfi/100/postcards.htm

Encyclopaedia Britannica: Ellis Island

http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/2/0,5716,33012+1,00.html

Photos: Inside Ellis Island

http://www.libertystatepark.com/inside_photos_of_ellis_island.htm

Other Quarantine Stations around the Globe

History -- MANLY QUARANTINE STATION, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

http://manlyquarantine.com/History.htm

Angel Island: A National Historic Landmark

Also known as the "North Garrison" http://www.angelisland.org/

Immigration Sites

NARA -- Northeast Region

NARA — Northeast Regional Center

Cyndi's List Immigration & Naturalization

http://www.cyndislist.com/immigration

The Immigration Experience:

http://members.tripod.com/~L_Alfano/immig.htm

Chinese Immigration

http://www.archives.gov/research/chinese-americans/guide.html

US Citizenship and Immigrations Services (formerly the INS)

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscism

• USCIS Genealogy Program

Ships' Passengers' Arrival Sites

Governor's Island, NY Harbor

http://www.govisland.com/html/home/home.shtml

Cyndi's List — Ellis Island

http://www.cyndislist.com/ellis-island/

Immigration created by Debbie Kennedy, Long Island Educational Enterprise Zone

http://www.angelfire.com/ny2/dkennedy/immigration.html

The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild

THE COMPASS: THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE http://immigrantships.net/newcompass/ancestral/imm_exp/castle_immexp.html

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