Author: Lorie Conway ISBN : Product Detai New from Format: PDFA century ago, in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, one of the world's greatest public hospitals was built. 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.
Direct download links available for PRETITLE Forgotten Ellis Island: Fear and Fever on Ellis Island [Kindle Edition] POSTTITLE- File Size: 5280 KB
- Print Length: 208 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins e-books; 1 edition (October 5, 2010)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
- Language: English
- ASIN: B003V1WUDU
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Not Enabled
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I really enjoyed this book because I did not know a whole lot about the Ellis island situation and was fascinated at the detail that this book gave about the construction of the hospitals and how patients got placed in them. I also had no idea that the immigrants had so many skin diseases but after reading about the sanitation conditions I was not surprised. It is truly amazing what our ancestors had to go through to live here.By Deanne Sayles
Before reading this book I knew very little about Ellis Island. I thought of Ellis Island as a port of entry and not much else. After reading this book and seeing pictures of the many people that came through Ellis Island I had a new sense of appreciation not only of those that came through but of those that made it possible. Although the book depicts some of the darker side of how we, as a nation, dealt with immigrants, the overall story was one of hope and humanity. I highly recommend this book.By Susan S.
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