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| Springsteen, his two aunts (at ends) and his mother in her right when handing the award to Ellis Island on 22/10/2010. |
"I dock at Ellis Island in a city of lights and turns" (2) says Springsteen "American Land" bringing in its text A lot of good shots on the imagination of immigrants towards the new world.
This song originated from a covers album entitled "We Shall Overcome-The Pete Seeger Sessions" . We can easily guess, the disc is a compilation of covers of folk songs written or performed by Pete Seeger. For this album, the Boss has separated from his E Street Band and has appealed to musicians in New York and New Jersey to record songs. Over time, the group became the "Sessions Band" . In the edition called "American Land Bonus Tracks" appears in 18th song this song, which is an exception because Bruce Springsteen is signed.
This song originated from a covers album entitled "We Shall Overcome-The Pete Seeger Sessions" . We can easily guess, the disc is a compilation of covers of folk songs written or performed by Pete Seeger. For this album, the Boss has separated from his E Street Band and has appealed to musicians in New York and New Jersey to record songs. Over time, the group became the "Sessions Band" . In the edition called "American Land Bonus Tracks" appears in 18th song this song, which is an exception because Bruce Springsteen is signed.
Ellis Island : a door opening onto the promised land.
Ellis Island was not always the gateway to America and his dream. Other sites that held the same role, however, are far from the little island off Manhattan.
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| Castle Garden immigration center of the state of New York from 1855 to 1890. |
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| site of Ellis Island in 1892. |
In 1897, part of the building is destroyed by fire from kitchens. In 1898, a new structure emerges from the earth. It includes the famous Great Hall (coming in 1900 to 6500 immigrants passing day), dormitories, a hospital and produced recovering materials excavation Grand Central (the station in New York ). In 1905 a third island will be added following the same methods. The new docking station for immigrants with its dormitories, his baggage rooms, hospital, its kitchens, its power station, the bathroom, employs a large staff that of immigration, but also performers, employees, guards, maintenance personnel, doctors, nurses and even a hairdresser!
Ellis Island : 12 million immigrants.
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| The lobby of the Museum of Immigration today reminds , above a baggage belonging to im - migrants that 12 million people came to States United by Ellis Island (photo vservat ) |
When center on Ellis Island opened in 1892 , immigration to the United States from the Old World (European continent), is not in its infancy. The nineteenth century U.S. is that mass immigration in the first place because the population of Europe passes between 1750 and 1845 from 140 to 250 million.
This population growth weighs heavily on farmers' estates or by reducing the size of the plots is leaving no legacy puisne , thereby promoting migration.
With the Great Irish Famine the mid-nineteenth century, 1.2 million Irish to leave the New World in addition to the 850,000 party since the 1820s. (See the histgeobox Articles Blot on Irish emigration and their professional future in the United States ) . These Irish people distinguished by their religion in particular, the wave of immigrants "invisible" (3) consists of English, Scottish and Welsh are not less than 2.7 million to leave the United Kingdom between 1820 and 1890.
addition to economic causes, we find the origins of departures across the Atlantic to the political turmoil affecting the old continent, as well as religious persecution affecting some communities in particular Jewish populations of Russia.
Between 1892 and 1924 12 million people enter the U.S. through Ellis Island and the Port of New York.
Other European Community which pass the golden door of Ellis Island, they include people germanophones and Scandinavia. Many of their members do not stop yet in New York and growing up Midwest.
The Italians who are following suit (which Ms. Zerilli, grandmother of Bruce Springsteen) can no longer access the lands already distributed. So they settle in cities, participating in their development by being employed in the construction industry or transport. Women are hired as employees, particularly in the textile industry really taking off. Today, it remains in New York, on a portion of Mulberry Street a visible part of the Little Italy neighborhood , populated by migrants from southern Italy immortalized by the filmmakers.
Recent communities flocking to the new world, those from Eastern Europe. We immediately think of people persecuted by the Jewish pogroms in Russia . Added to the Polish that turn in the favor of their passage across the Atlantic for agricultural labor in crucial component of urban industrial proletariat.
by the end historian Nancy Green between 1899 and 1924 3.8 million Italians, 1.8 million Jews, 1.5 million Poles, 1.3 million Germans, 1 million British, Scandinavian and many just a little less Irish (800 000) came to transform the population of the United States.
Ellis Island: a journey toward the American dream regulated.
On leaving the ferry that brings them to Ellis Island, after a journey that was often not easy, European migrants are not yet completed their sentences . A marked trail and regulated awaits them in this place turned into a veritable tower of Babel as it resonates all the languages of the European continent.
Migrants directed toward public health services to be the first to review them. The doctors quickly took the hand to identify migrants sick and weakened so much that they lined up on the "6 second physical" (a review of Express 6 seconds, in which the eye examination is a critical time to detect trachoma, ocular disease contagious). Few immigrants are scaled to the medical examination (an estimated 2% share). To whom it may concern, however, marking is required; a check mark in chalk is applied on their clothing to chest height and they are then redirected to medical facilities for further consideration. An overwhelming majority nevertheless arrives in the great hall of the main building of Ellis Island. There, the entrants meet at the end of their expectations, an employee of the USIS (United States Immigration Service) asking the questions, and sometimes their names Americanizes . (4) . This final step is one that achieves the sesame to the mainland and New York.
At certain times, of course, the immigration laws altered somewhat this term. From 1917 a "Litteracy Test" is established, and from 1921, quotas restricting entry to the United States are established by New York (3% and 2% of communities are already present allowed to pass, quotas based respectively on the 1910 census, and 1890). This hardening law leads to a sharp drop in the number of visitors the soil of the United States.
Ellis Island: a long silence and then the resurrection of the Tower of Babel of the new world.
World War II transformed the center of Ellis Island place of detention for the enemies of the United States (in 1946, about 7,000 German, Italian and Japanese prisoners were Ellis Island) and also center entrainment for the coastguard. The site is finally closed in 1954 and between dormant . It degrades quickly as we can see from the photos below.
With the Great Irish Famine the mid-nineteenth century, 1.2 million Irish to leave the New World in addition to the 850,000 party since the 1820s. (See the histgeobox Articles Blot on Irish emigration and their professional future in the United States ) . These Irish people distinguished by their religion in particular, the wave of immigrants "invisible" (3) consists of English, Scottish and Welsh are not less than 2.7 million to leave the United Kingdom between 1820 and 1890.
addition to economic causes, we find the origins of departures across the Atlantic to the political turmoil affecting the old continent, as well as religious persecution affecting some communities in particular Jewish populations of Russia.
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| Museum Ellis Island: This design graph, Disting that these are the twenty years preceding and after the turn of the century that immigration was the greatest. (Photo vservat) |
Other European Community which pass the golden door of Ellis Island, they include people germanophones and Scandinavia. Many of their members do not stop yet in New York and growing up Midwest.
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| New York, at the entrance of Mulberry Street, Little Italy. (Photo vservat) |
The Italians who are following suit (which Ms. Zerilli, grandmother of Bruce Springsteen) can no longer access the lands already distributed. So they settle in cities, participating in their development by being employed in the construction industry or transport. Women are hired as employees, particularly in the textile industry really taking off. Today, it remains in New York, on a portion of Mulberry Street a visible part of the Little Italy neighborhood , populated by migrants from southern Italy immortalized by the filmmakers.
Recent communities flocking to the new world, those from Eastern Europe. We immediately think of people persecuted by the Jewish pogroms in Russia . Added to the Polish that turn in the favor of their passage across the Atlantic for agricultural labor in crucial component of urban industrial proletariat.
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| Wall Passport museum on Ellis Island. (Vservat) |
Ellis Island: a journey toward the American dream regulated.
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| Museum on Ellis Island, summary of course the newcomer. (Photo vservat) |
Migrants directed toward public health services to be the first to review them. The doctors quickly took the hand to identify migrants sick and weakened so much that they lined up on the "6 second physical" (a review of Express 6 seconds, in which the eye examination is a critical time to detect trachoma, ocular disease contagious). Few immigrants are scaled to the medical examination (an estimated 2% share). To whom it may concern, however, marking is required; a check mark in chalk is applied on their clothing to chest height and they are then redirected to medical facilities for further consideration. An overwhelming majority nevertheless arrives in the great hall of the main building of Ellis Island. There, the entrants meet at the end of their expectations, an employee of the USIS (United States Immigration Service) asking the questions, and sometimes their names Americanizes . (4) . This final step is one that achieves the sesame to the mainland and New York.
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| Grand Hall of Ellis Island. (photo photo museum, vservat) |
At certain times, of course, the immigration laws altered somewhat this term. From 1917 a "Litteracy Test" is established, and from 1921, quotas restricting entry to the United States are established by New York (3% and 2% of communities are already present allowed to pass, quotas based respectively on the 1910 census, and 1890). This hardening law leads to a sharp drop in the number of visitors the soil of the United States.
Ellis Island: a long silence and then the resurrection of the Tower of Babel of the new world.
World War II transformed the center of Ellis Island place of detention for the enemies of the United States (in 1946, about 7,000 German, Italian and Japanese prisoners were Ellis Island) and also center entrainment for the coastguard. The site is finally closed in 1954 and between dormant . It degrades quickly as we can see from the photos below.
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| The landing in ruins, 1974. (P. Buelher). |
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| The Refectory, 1974. (P. Buelher) |
In 1965, Ellis became Isalnd national monument being built in the park of the Statue of Liberty. From 1984, a huge operation renovation begins. She breathes new life into the scene to turn into this museum that we visit today . It also resurrected the lives of those who crossed the ocean and were able to leave on a wall, the moving trace of their passage to a new life, American soil.
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| Drawing of a ship carved on one wall of the site of Ellis Island by anonymous migrant updated to support the renovation of the site. (photo vservat) |
(1) See the article Aug on histgeobox
(2) "I docked at Ellis Island in a city of light and arrows"
(3) The expression of N. Green, she uses English for migrants who have rapidly melted in the crucible, no difference in language.
(4) An example is fictionalized in "Moon Palace" by P. Auster, New Yorker writer: "Later, Uncle Victor told me that originally the name of his father was Fogelman, and someone at Ellis Island in the immigration offices, had reduced him to Fog, with g, which had taken place name American family up to the addition of the second g in 1907. Fogel means bird, my uncle explained to me, and I liked the idea that this creature was a part of my foundation. I imagined a brave ancestor who one day had actually been able to fly. A bird flying in the fog, I imagined myself, a giant bird that crossed the ocean without rest before they reach America. "
Bibliography / web list:
A. Kaspi , "Americans", Volume 1, points threshold, 1986.
N. Green "And they peulèrent America" , discovery Gallimard, 1994
J. Rainhorn, "Calling America" , History, 04/2007.
P. Rygiel, "When Europe was a land of emigration" , collections of history, 01/2010
and now for the music:
 What is this land America There So Many travel What is this land of America to which both travel I'm going now while I'm still young my darling meet me There I go now while I'm young, my darling meet me over there Wish me luck my lovely I'll send for you When I Can Wish me luck my beloved, I write you as soon as possible And we'll make our Home in the American land and we found our home on American soil. Over There All the woman wear silk and satin to Their Knees Over there all the women wear silk and satin knee and Children dear, The Sweet, I hear, are Growing on the Trees And their dear children, so sweet, I heard, grow on trees Gold Comes Out The rushing rivers Straight Into Your Hands Gold River rises directly in your hands When you make your home in the American Land When you live in American soil. There's diamonds in the Sidewalk The's gutters lined in song There are diamonds on the sidewalks, gutters lined songs Dear I Hear That beer flows Through the faucets all night long Cherie j I heard beer pouring shooters all night There's treasure for The Taking, for "any hard working man There are treasures to be taken, for every man able to work hard Who Will Make His Home in the American Land Who will be established on American soil. I docked at Ellis Island in a city of light and turns I docked at Ellis Island in a city of light and arrows She puts me in the valley of red-hot steel and Fire She met me in the valley of the molten steel and fire We Made The Steel That Built the Cities With Our sweat and two hands We made the steel that used to build these cities with our sweat and both hands And We Made Our Home In The American Land And we established our home on American soil. There's diamonds in the Sidewalk The's gutters lined in song There are diamonds on the sidewalks, gutters lined songs Dear I Hear That beer flows Through the faucets all night long Girl I heard the beer pouring shooters all night There's treasure for The Taking, for "any hard working man There are treasures to take, for every man able to work hard Who Will Make history home In The American Land Who will be established on American soil. The McNicholas, The Posalski's, The Smiths, Zerilli, too The McNicholas, the Posalski, The Smiths, the Zerilli also The Blacks, The Irish, Italians, The Germans and the Jews Blacks, Irish, Germans, and Jews Come Across the Water A Thousand Miles from Home crossed the sea, hundreds of miles from home With nothin In Their bellies But The Fire Down Below With their empty stomachs May the fire on their heels Theys Died Building the railroads to bones and skin WORKED They mourrurent building the railway was killed at work Theys Died In The fields and factories names Scattered in the wind They mourrurent in fields and factories to get here Theys Died A Hundred Years ago now they're "still dyin They mourrurent to get here for a hundred years ago and they still die The Hand That Built The country Were Always Trying to keep down hands who built this country have always tried not to show as There's diamonds in the Sidewalk The gutters lined in song There are diamonds on the sidewalks, gutters lined songs Dear I Hear That beer flows Through the faucets all night long Girl I heard the beer pouring shooters all night There's treasure for The Taking, for "any hard working man There are treasures to take, for every man able to work hard Who Will Make His Home in the American Land Who will be established on American soil. Who will make his home in the American Land Qui s'établira en terre Américaine. Who will make his home in the American Land Qui s'établira en terre Américaine. American Land |
