Photographed April 27, 1906.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
Camera: G.W. ''Billy'' Bitzer

A view of hundreds of immigrants with their possessions. After processing the new citizens would board boats and ferries that would take them on the last leg of their long journeys to the Battery on Lower Manhattan. One third of all immigrant arrivals settled in or near New York. The rest made their ways to the rest of the country.
Ellis Island is in Upper New York Bay, near the coast of New Jersey. Named for Samuel Ellis, who acquired the island in 1785, it was purchased from his heirs in 1808 by the State of New York and turned over to the federal government.
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"From 1892 to 1954, over twelve million immigrants entered the United States through the portal of Ellis Island, a small island in New York Harbor. While the new immigration station on Ellis Island was under construction, the Barge Office at the Battery was used for the processing of immigrants. The new structure on Ellis Island, built of 'Georgia pine' opened on January 1, 1892; Annie Moore, a 15 year-old Irish girl, accompanied by her two brothers entered history and a new country as she was the very first immigrant to be processed at Ellis Island on January 2." -Ellis Island Foundation "Ellis Island - History," www.ellisisland.org

Ellis Island Foundation "Ellis Island - History," www.ellisisland.org (accessed July 15, 2009)
New York City in 1906:
Joseph W. Stern published the first song by Irving Berlin (born Israel Baline), ''Sunny Marie from Sunny Italy.'' Berlin received 37¢ for the song. At the time he was a singing waiter at Mike Salter's Pelham Café (''Nigger Mike's'') on Pell Street / On June 25 a jealous Harry K. Thaw shot and killed Stanford White in the rooftop garden of Madison Square Garden. In 1901, White had been involved with Thaws wife, Evelyn Nesbitt, when she was a 16-year-old showgirl, years before she married Thaw / On June 30, Happyland amusement park opened at South Beach on Staten Island / For a few weeks in September, Ota Benga, a 23-year-old Pygmy from the Belgian Congo, was displayed in a cage at the Bronx Zoo. (Benga had been enslaved by villagers in the Congo; they sold him to a man who brought him to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair for an anthropological exhibit. Outraged black clergy compelled William Hornaday, director of the zoo, to permit Benga to wander the grounds, though he continued to sleep in the primate house. Mercilessly harassed by the public, Benga was sent to an orphan asylum in Brooklyn and then to a seminary in Virginia, where he committed suicide in 1916 / The 69th Regiment Armory at 68 Lexington Avenue opened on October 13 / The 556-room Knickerbocker Hotel at Broadway and 42nd Street opened in October / The Rockaway Journal began publishing

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