Title & Author:

Ellis Island : echoes from a nation's past / essays by Norman Kotker [and others] ; edited by Susan Jonas.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Aperture Foundation : Distributed to the general Book trade by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©1989.

Description:

149 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.

Series:

An Aperture book

Notes:
"In association with the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, and Montclair State College."
"An Aperture book."
Includes bibliographical references (page 144) and index.
Introduction: from the future in America / H.G. Wells -- Welcome: the immigrants arrive (1892-1954) / Norman Kotker -- An Island abandoned (1954-1984) / Shirley C. Burden -- Ellis Island: symbol and reality (1983-1990) / Charles Hagen -- Portfolio / by 34 contemporary photographers / Ellis Island: an architectural history (1892-1990) / Robert Twombly -- 140 chronology / Paul Kinney.

Summary:

Traces the history of Ellis Island and describes the experiences of immigrants arriving there.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0893813966 (hardcover)
9780893813963 (hardcover)
0893813974 (paperbound)
9780893813970 (paperbound)

Subject:

Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) History.
Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
Immigrants United States History
Ellis Island Historic District (New York, N.Y.) History.
Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.) History.
Ellis Island (N.J. et N.Y.) Histoire.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
History

Added entries:

Kotker, Norman.
Jonas, Susan.
United States. National Park Service.
United States. Department of the Interior.
Montclair State College.
Aperture book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 54378
Call No.: ID EXHX; ID:90-B2976
Status: Available