Record of Detained Aliens

Title: Record of Detained Aliens
Subject: Women; Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.); Women immigrants; Immigration enforcement
Description: A record of a group of women and children detained at the Ellis Island Immigration station because they weren't allowed to leave without guardians. Adult women were not allowed to leave unaccompanied, the same as the children, and were often detained for days while they waited for their husbands, brothers, or male relatives to pick them up.
Creator: Ellis Island Immigration Station
Date: 1911
Source: Department of Commerce and Labor Immigration Service, Record of Detained Aliens, 1911; The Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., Accessed at https://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/passenger-result
Rights: Public Domain
Type: Ship Manifest
Format: PDF
Language: English
Coverage: The Development of Modern America (1865–1920)
Contributor: Laura Juliano