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House hearings of, 223–27
immigrants detained at, 3–5, 7, 11, 14, 81, 89, 93, 108, 119–20, 131–32, 196, 209, 225–26, 234, 237, 238–39, 262, 263, 264, 266, 271, 275, 286, 294, 295–97, 298, 301–3, 304, 310, 312–13, 317, 320–23, 339–40, 350, 351, 352, 353, 355, 357, 359–60, 361–63, 364, 366, 368–70, 372, 375–76, 412
inspection at, 2, 3, 6–7, 14, 58, 60–61, 78, 88, 90, 116, 121, 123, 141, 168, 178, 194, 195–96, 213, 225, 253, 262, 316, 342, 357, 406–7
intelligence testers at, 241–42, 249–59 jail at, 147
marriages at, 169, 267
military use of, 26–28, 29
missionary work at, 109, 136, 185–86, 235, 338–39
as museum, 14, 395–96, 399–400, 403–6
name-change myth of, 15, 401–3 number processed by, 5, 14, 79, 91, 167, 168, 172, 347, 410–11
OSS investigation of, 352–53
patronage at, 62, 108–9, 110, 121, 122, 139, 163, 166, 167, 178
photographs at, 180–81
plans for, 49–50
post-fire facilities built at, 120, 121, 122, 123
psychiatric ward at, 1–2
records and documents at, 142–45 records destroyed at, 107
Registry division at, 117
restoration of, 391, 392–93, 398, 399, 400, 403, 404, 405, 408
sale of facilities at, 379–80, 384 T. Roosevelt’s inspection of, 129–30 T. Roosevelt’s presidential visit to, 156–58
twenty-five-dollar rule at, 196–99, 201, 202–3, 204
visitors and tourists at, 148
Von Briesen Commission at, 158–61, 228
Williams’s Annual Report on, 140, 153, 154
Williams’s notice at, 140–41
Ellis Island, 379
Ellis Island and Other Stories (Helprin), 391
Ellis Island Centennial Commission, 394
Ellis Island Institute and Conference Center, 407–8
Ellis Island Restoration Commission, 392
Ellis Island Snow Globe (Rand), 404 “Ellis Island’s Problems” (Irwin), 154 Emmett, Robert, 119
England, 26–27, 28
Erdofy, Arthur, 93
Erie Canal, 28
Espionage Act (1917), 309, 319
eugenics, 243–47, 250–51, 335, 346–47 Eugenics Research Association, 247 Europe, 343
eastern, 91, 161, 215, 231, 333, 381 northern, 91, 207
southern, 91, 215, 231, 333, 381 western, 91
evolution, 8, 41, 246–47
Fairbanks, Louis, 268
Farber, Gershon, 199
favus, 150, 206
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
350, 353, 354, 360, 367
Federal Trade Commission, 305 “feebleminded,” 242
feminism, 306
Ferdinand, Franz, 286
Ferguson, Sean, 401
Ferraro, Geraldine, 398
Fettmann, Eric, 393, 395
Field, Stephen, 61
Fino, Paul, 380
first-class passengers, 298–99
Fitchie, Thomas, 109, 113, 114, 115,
120, 133, 134–37, 144, 265 Fitzgerald, John F., 97
Fitzharris, James “Skin the Goat,”
119–20
Flynn, Thomas, 93
Foran Act (1885), 43
Ford, Melbourne, 46–49
Ford Motor Company, 391
Fort Wadsworth, 324–25
Foster, Charles, 63
Fourteenth Amendment, U.S., 204 France, prostitutes from, 282 Franco, Francisco, 354
Franklin, John Hope, 404
Fraser, James, 140
Frick, Henry Clay, 318
Friedman, Jacob, 401
Fuhr, Eberhard, 350, 358
Gage, Lyman, 114, 116
Galicia, 104, 208, 233
Garfield, James A., 64
Garrett, Cynthia, 408
Garrison, William Lloyd, 32, 95 Garrison, William Lloyd, Jr., 189 Garvey, Marcus, 404
Gaston, William A., 143, 144
Geddes, A. C., 340–41
Gelvot, Meyer, 199
General Services Administration (GSA),
379–80
genetics, 8, 41, 205, 243, 244–45,
246–47, 250–51, 335, 346–47 George, Henry, 84, 131, 322
Germans, Germany, 34, 40, 92, 98, 103,
151, 155–56, 162, 170, 171, 175–76,
182, 200, 218–20, 222–23, 225, 234,
235, 270, 282, 307, 308–10, 344 as “alien enemies,” 292–94, 295–96,
351, 352, 357–59, 360
quotas on, 334–35
German Society, 35
Germany, U.S. declaration of war with,
293, 302
Gettysburg, Battle of, 52, 64
Gibbet Island, 14, 19, 20–23
see also Ellis Island
Gibbs, Charles, 22–23
Gift of Black Folk, The (Du Bois), 345 Giro, Marco, 285
Giuliani, Rudy, 408
Glazer, Nathan, 389
globalization, 414, 417
Glueck, Bernard, 254–55
Goddard, Henry H., 242, 244, 247, 253,
254, 255, 256, 258, 346
Goderis, Joost, 25–26
Godfather II, 406
Goldberger, Paul, 400
Golden Door (Nuovomondo), 406–7 Goldman, Emma, 147, 148, 311, 316,
318–25
Goldman, Julius, 319–20
gold standard,