"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free... The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door"

Immigrant family looking at Statue of Liberty from Ellis Island.  ca 1930.

New York - Welcome to the land of freedom - An ocean steamer passing the Statue of Liberty: Scene on the steerage deck / from a sketch by a staff artist.
1887

Photos Courtesy of the Library of Congress

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