December 26, 2024
Tag: Castle Garden New York
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Castle Garden, the Gateway to Ellis Island
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America’s welcome mat at Ellis Island in New York was for refugees — from hunger, political unrest, or poverty. While before 1890 the states controlled immigration, in 1890 the federal government took control through the Departments of Commerce, Labor, and (in 1940) Justice. Ellis Island wasn’t the only federal immigration center, but it was the…
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December 8, 2022 3 Comments
A discussion about this article prompted a pediatric nurse to tell me that a suburban Richmond hospital has added email capabilities to all their maternity rooms. The free birth announcement software has interactive dialog-boxes for the date and location of birth, name, gender, birth weight, and one photo.