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Table of Contents of
Strangers at the Door
Ellis Island, Castle Garden, and the Great Migration to America

by
Ann Novotny

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CONTENTS
I          Ellis Island (1907) .................  7
           Picture  Essay: Faces  of the  Immigrants  ...... 25

II         The Earliest Immigrants (to 1855) .... 30

III        Castle Garden (1855-1890) .    ........44
           Picture Essay: Immigrants in Art and Fiction .....55

IV         Ellis Island's Early Years (before 1907).. 63

V          Life and Work in the New World ........ 76
           Picture Essay: The Road  to  the  West . .......   92

VI         Famous Immigrants     ..................100

VII        Ellis Island's Declining Years (1915-1932). 115

VIII       Ellis Island as a Detention Center and White Elephant ... 131
           Picture Essay: The American Welcome ................145

Appendix:  Acknowledgements, Bibliography, Index ....151

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