THE FORGOTTEN OF ELLIS ISLAND
Deaths in Quarantine, 1909-1911

 

Ancestors 2 PBS Show

• Ancestors PBS TV show
• The Search for Apollonia Spiegel
  • Ship's Passenger Manifest, page 1
  • Ship's Passenger Manifest, page 2
• Some Photos Taken While Filming the Ancestors PBS TV show

Archives and Repositories

• Some Resources to Help You Trace Your Immigrant Ancestors

Articles, Books, and Periodicals

• Periodicals
• Books
• How We Guard Against the Introduction of Cholera
• Despatch from H.M. Ambassador at Washington reporting on Conditions at Ellis Island Immigration Station Presented to Parliament
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5
• Alvah Doty — Obituary
• Alvah Doty — Bio
• How Immigrants Are Inspected
• The Medical Side Of Immigration
• Going Through Ellis Island
  • part 1 of 3
  • part 2 of 3
  • part 3 of 3
• The Quarantine Station for Ellis Island
• Quarantine At New York
• The Open Door for Immigrants by James Davenport Whelpley
• A Little Island Near New York Peopled With Babies
• Parted From His Family
• Doty Holds Up Ship In Fear Of Cholera
• Mothers in Sorrow Leave Ellis Island
• A Word to Ship Captains About Quarantine, part 1 of 3
• A Word to Ship Captains About Quarantine, part 2 of 3
• A Word to Ship Captains About Quarantine, part 3 of 3
• How Plagues Are Watched the World Around
• When Liners Get into Port
• Robert Watchorn — The Man Who Climbed Out
• Robert Watchorn – Part 1
• Robert Watchorn – Part 2
• Robert Watchorn – Part 3
• "The New York Quarantine Station And Its Work,", by Alvah H. Doty, M.D.
• Deadly Malaria Spread By Sting of Mosquitoes
• Barriers Against Invisible Foes
  • Part 1 of 4
  • Part 2 of 4
  • Part 3 of 4
  • Part 4 of 4
• Quarantine, A National Affair
• Report of inspection of aliens at port of New York during the year ended June 30, 1904

Cemeteries in NY area

• Mount Olivet Cemetery

Contact Information

Death Certificates

• Surnames — A
• Surnames — B
• Surnames — C
• Surnames — D
• Surnames — E-F
• Surnames — G-H
• Surnames — I-J-K
• Surnames — L
• Surnames — M-N
• Surnames — O-P-Q
• Surnames — R
• Surnames — S
• Surnames — T-U-V
• Surnames — W-X-Y-Z

Guestbook

Home Page

General Laws of New York State concerning Quarantine, 1900

• Article VI, Quarantine at the Port of New York
• Article VII, The Health Officer of the Port of New York

Miscellaneous Links Relating to Immgrant Quarantine and to Ellis Island, etc.

Pictures and Photographs relating to Ellis Island

• Photo Gallery
• Scenes at Ellis Island, the Principal Immigrant Gateway...
• Some Ellis Island Images
• New York Harbor
• Hoffman Island
• Swinburne Island
• The Immigrant's Tag
• Visitor's Guide to Ellis Island
  • Visitor's Guide to Ellis Island, Page 1
  • Visitor's Guide to Ellis Island, Page 2
  • Visitor's Guide to Ellis Island, Page 3
  • Visitor's Guide to Ellis Island, Page 4
• Quarantine Sketches from the Maltine Company
  • Maltine advertisement
  • Typical Immigrants
  • Quarantine Station and Laboratory at Quarantine
  • Maltine advertisement
  • Disinfecting boat, the Doctor's boat; and Doctors boarding steamship
  • Disinfecting apparatus
  • Views of 3 islands
  • New Hospital building on Ellis Island's island #2
  • Registry Room Main Building on Ellis Island
  • Immigrant pen
  • Filing past the doctors
  • Doctor's inspection of suspects for skin diseases
  • Doctor's examination
  • Immigrants shown into pens
  • Detention pens -- waiting for relatives
  • Dentention pen -- awaiting deportation
  • Held at Ellis Island -- awaiting deportation
  • Maltine advertisement
  • Men's ward in hospital
  • Maltine advertisement
  • Dining Hall
  • Final Discharge from Ellis Island
  • Landing at Ellis Island
  • Shipping Immigrants
  • The Battery, New York City
  • The Kissing Gates
  • Money Exchange Depot
  • Maltine advertisement: Cod Liver Oil
  • Railway department
  • Baggage Room
  • Shipping immigrants
  • A Family Group
• The Layout of Ellis Island
• The Main Immigrant Building
• The Immigrant Hospital
• The Registry Room in the Main Immigrant Building

Press

• In the Press

Ports of Call

• Some Ports of Entry in the USA, 1911
• National, State, and Local Quarantine Stations and Ports of Entry in 1896

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