GGA Image ID # 14e26b4ce4Īmerica is the land of the alien, and even now his mark is plain on all our institutions.

The Popular Science Monthly, January 1913. is finished, and she has gone on with them happily to the new home in America.Ī Polish Mother Holding Her Baby Up To See The Doctor. In the New York room, a Flemish couple have waited seven long months for a little girl who is still sick in the hospital.Įvery morning on his rounds they ask the doctor how soon she can come to them, and thrice a week they visit her bedside. Children with no common bond of race, language or religion, play together perhaps more happily for that very reason. The reunion of broken families, and the old folks coming to live in the home prepared by the pioneer children, constantly afford views of human nature unmasked and unrestrained.Īll races and conditions of men come together here and adjust themselves more or less amicably to each other. In a few days the baby died, and the mother went on alone to the father waiting in the west. The next morning he lay stricken with meningitis and that evening was dead.Ī young mother was separated from her two-year-old baby because the baby had diphtheria.

A burly, laughing giant of a man came down the line one afternoon, elated to have reached the land of his lifelong hope. It is an island crowded full of pathos and tragedy, of startling contrasts and unexpected humor. Five hundred and twenty-five persons are employed on the island exclusive of the score of medical officers and the hundred or more attendants of the Public Health Service. Five thousand six hundred passed through last Easter Sunday. The reverse features a design of an immigrant family with their belongings on the threshold of America.Five thousand immigrants in a day is no uncommon figure. The obverse design of the coin features a side view of Liberty and back view of an immigrant ship steaming into New York harbor. was to use the funds collected from coin sale surcharges to restore and renovate the Statue of Liberty and the facilities used for immigration at Ellis Island and to establish an endowment that would ensure the continued upkeep and maintenance of these monuments. Read More Read Less Recipient Organization: Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.Īs specified in Public Law 99-61, the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.

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