American Family Immigration History Center

News about Ellis Island, the Family History Center & 65 million ship passenger records! Find Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation updates: @StatueEllisFdn

[Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island Foundation @StatueEllisFdn]

The Treasures from Home exhibit on @EllisIsland showcases clothing, photographs, religious artifacts, toys, and personal items that immigrants brought with them to America. This is a visitor favorite because it gives us a peek into everyday life throughout different cultures.🗽💼

[Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island Foundation @StatueEllisFdn]

Stories from Ellis Island returns! Join us Thursday, 6/3 for an exciting chat with special guest Jen Baldwin! Jen is the Data Acquisition Manager (North America) for @findmypast! This week's topic will be Fraternal Organizations. Join us 3:30PM EST https://t.co/Oj8GU7GKp6 🗽

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This month, @Lowes is celebrating the diversity of our associates and customers who are a part of the Asia Pacific community. Thank you to @JackieSchalk, Director of the American Family Immigration History Center at the @StatueEllisFdn for moderating today’s discussion! #APAC

[Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island Foundation @StatueEllisFdn]

Stories from Ellis Island returns! Join us Thursday, 5/20 for a special #AsianPacificHeritageMonth episode! Hosts Jackie & Josh chat with Ed Tepporn from Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation! @ai_immigration 🗽 3:30PM EST on https://t.co/Oj8GU7GKp6

[CBS Mornings @CBSMornings]

⁣Between the 1890s & WWI, some 12M immigrants arrived at Ellis Island.

@TonyDokoupil spoke w/ Director of the American Family Immigration History Center (@EllisIsland) Jackie Schalk to find out what it was like for new arrivals who came there in search of their American Dream.

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Tomorrow on "Stories From Ellis", hosts chat with John Boeren, a Professional Genealogist at @antecedentia_nl! This week's topic will be Dutch genealogy. Tune in 3/25 @ 3:30PM EST! 🗽 https://t.co/Oj8GU7GKp6

[Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island Foundation @StatueEllisFdn]

In honor of #WomensHistoryMonth, here are just a few of the strong, brave women and mothers photographed after their long journey to @EllisIsland! 🗽

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Sound reproduction pioneer Avery Fisher was #BornThisDay in 1906. He founded Fisher Electronics with the goal of making radios that sounded like a live orchestra & achieved high fidelity to the original sound. On this manifest, he’s returning from France with his family #BTD #OTD

[Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island Foundation @StatueEllisFdn]

Kicking off #WomensHistoryMonth with author, poet & activist, Emma Lazarus. Best known for “The New Colossus" written in 1883, the sonnet raised money for the construction of Lady Liberty's pedestal. In 1903, the sonnet was cast in bronze and mounted on the pedestal! 🗽

[Zach Tarnowski @tarnowskiz]

Kicking off our Immigration unit with understanding our roots and finding out when we arrived here. #rootsrundeep #americathestoryofus @EllisIsland @Gilder_Lehrman @SHEG_Stanford @OAUpdate

[Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island Foundation @StatueEllisFdn]

Thursday on "Stories From Ellis", hosts chat w/ Steve Rockwood, CEO & President of @FamilySearch! Celebrate the start of @RootsTechConf with a special chat about the role of genealogists and emotional connections made during research! 2/25 @ 3:30PM EST! 🗽 https://t.co/Oj8GU7GKp6

[American Family Immigration History Center @EllisIsland]

Earl “Snakehips” Tucker got his nickname for the dance he popularized in the 1920’s as a regular entertainer at the Savoy Ballroom & the Cotton Club. He enjoyed a brief film career, performed with Duke Ellington & traveled the world. #BlackHistoryMonth

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The historian Arturo Schomburg’s personal collection of art, literature, and historical resources would later become the @SchomburgCenter for Research in Black Culture. One of his many trips abroad is recorded on this manifest. #BlackHistoryMonth

[American Family Immigration History Center @EllisIsland]

Loïs Mailou Jones was a notable figure in the art community for 70 years. She used the Caribbean, Africa & her own international travels as inspiration. Her return to @HowardU is captured on this manifest. #BlackHistoryMonth 📷: @RenwickGallery

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Diarist & author Anaïs Nin was #BornThisDay in 1903 to Cuban parents in France. She moved with her mother & siblings to Barcelona & then to NYC in 1914. Her sometimes raucous personal life often served as inspiration for her works of fiction. #BTD #OTD

[The Nature of Invention 🔬 @TnoiDoc]

If you are only going to receive ONE @uspto #patent, make sure it is a doozy. #OTD February 18, 1879 (142 years ago): Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904), a French🇫🇷 sculptor, received this🔻design patent for, "Liberty Enlightening the World," aka the #StatueofLiberty.
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[Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island Foundation @StatueEllisFdn]

Tomorrow on "Stories From Ellis", hosts chat with Dr. Elijah Heyward III, COO at The International African American Museum in Charleston, SC, opening 2022. This week, we'll discuss African-American genealogy and Gadsden's Wharf. 2/11 @ 3:30PM EST! 🗽 https://t.co/Oj8GU7GKp6

[Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island Foundation @StatueEllisFdn]

#BlackHistoryMonth Josephine Baker was an American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent/WWII spy, and civil rights activist! Baker was the first African-American to star in a major picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics! Check out this ship manifest!

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Looking for something educational to explore at home? Check out @EllisIsland Oral Histories! 📽📚 Since 1973, the Oral History project has been dedicated to preserving the first-hand recollections of immigrants who passed through the Ellis Island. https://t.co/KNFZ0OeJsX 🗽

[Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island Foundation @StatueEllisFdn]

Today, we honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a legendary leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. King & Coretta Scott King, flew from LDN to NY, landing at Idlewild on 3/24/57. Below is their plane manifest, searchable in our online database https://t.co/AOI3Xv0MbW #MLKDay 🗽