ILLUSTRATIONS
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Coming AmericansFrontispiece
The Inflowing Tide18
Ellis Island Immigration Station34
Receiving Room at Ellis Island59
Detained for Special Examination74
An Appeal from the Special Inquiry Board to Commissioner Watchorn94
The Landing at the Battery in New York102
A German Family128
Italian and Swiss Girls144
A Group of Twelve Different Nationalities166
Three Types of Immigrants180
A Group of Immigrants Just Arrived at Ellis Island198
An Italian Family Crowded in a New York Tenement210
Four Nationalities236
Portuguese and Spanish Children256
An Italian Sunday School in New England283
Sketch Maps and Charts
Immigration at the Port of New York for 190632
Immigrant Distribution by States for 1905106
Immigrant Distribution by Races:
Scandinavian108
Canadian and British109
Irish114
Germanic115
French and Iberic146
Slavic171
Changes in Sources of Immigration Causing Increase of Illiteracy125
Countries from which the Slavs Come161
Distribution of Slavs in the United States163
Wave of Immigration for Eighty-seven Years308
Colored Chart of Races of Immigrants for 1905End