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The Registry Room, Ellis Island’s Great Hall is a National Park Service photograph, identified by Wikimedia Commons as a U.S. federal-government public-domain work. It is resized for this journal.

Main immigration building at Ellis Island appeared in Popular Science Monthly, volume 82, in 1913; its photographer is unidentified. Wikimedia Commons identifies the U.S. publication as public domain because of its age. The historical image is used as historical context, not as a photograph of current immigration processing.

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