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Forgotten Ellis Island



Author: Lorie Conway
Edition: 1
Publisher: Smithsonian
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0061241962



Forgotten Ellis Island: The Extraordinary Story of America's Immigrant Hospital


A century ago, in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, one of the world's greatest public hospitals was built. Medical books Forgotten Ellis Island. Massive and modern, the hospital's twenty-two state-of-the-art buildings were crammed onto two small islands, man-made from the rock and dirt excavated during the building of the New York subway. As America's first line of defense against immigrant-borne disease, the hospital was where the germs of the world converged.

The Ellis Island hospital was at once welcoming and foreboding—a fateful crossroad for hundreds of thousands of hopeful immigrants. Those nursed to health were allowed entry to America Medical books Forgotten Ellis Island - [DVD]. Forgotten Ellis Island

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This is the first film about the once abandoned immigrant hospital on Ellis Island. In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island, 3500 were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.

Categories: Ellis Island Immigration Station (NY and NJ). Contributors: Lorie Conway - Author. Format: Hardcover

Categories: Ellis Island Immigration Station (NY and NJ), Hospitals->United States->History, Ellis Island Immigration Station (NY and NJ. Contributors: Lorie Conway - Author. Format: NOOK Book



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Massive and modern, the hospital's twenty-two state-of-the-art buildings were crammed onto two small islands, man-made from the rock and dirt excavated during the building of the New York subway. As America's first line of defense against immigrant-borne disease, the hospital was where the germs of the world converged.

The Ellis Island hospital was at once welcoming and foreboding—a fateful crossroad for hundreds of thousands of hopeful immigrants. Those nursed to health were allowed entry to America. Those deemed feeble of body or mind were deported.

Three short decades after it opened, the Ellis Island hospital was all but abandoned. As America after World War I began shutting its border to all but a favored few, the hospital fell into disuse and decay, its medical wards left open only to the salt air of the New York Harbor.

With many never-before-published photographs and compelling, sometimes heartbreaking stories of patients (a few of whom are still alive today) and medical staff, Forgotten Ellis Island is the first book about this extraordinary institution. It is a powerful tribute to the best and worst of America's dealings with its new citizens-to-be.



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