Two passports at Ellis Island

One hundred years ago today …. With the Great War over, immigrants were arriving at Ellis Island in increasing numbers in 1920.

Arie A. Sahlerolle arrived from the Netherlands.

Anthony Rando came from Italy.

Images from Chermayeff, Ivan, and Fred Wasserman and Mary J. Shapiro, Ellis Island: An Illustrated History of the Immigrant Experience. New York: MacMillan and Co., 1991. 30-31.

WRITTEN BY JONATHAN GOLDMAN, JUNE 21, 2020.

TAGS: immigration, Netherlands, Italy, Ellis Island