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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Ellis Island"”.
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The Structure of the Registry Hall at Ellis Island
… Guastavino barrel vault at the Registry Hall on Ellis Island. The Guastavino Construction Company's innovative tile structures from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, characterized by their efficiency in material use and formwork, are not fully understood by many engineers, especially in …
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Ellis Island: The public and personal representations of the immigrant experience
… 1954, more than 12 million immigrants arrived at Ellis Island's shores for the promise of a new beginning in America. During this period of immigrant influx and in the decades to follow, anti-immigrant sentiment remained at the forefront of the collective American conscious, varying in severity, …
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Silent partners and missing links : history, architecture and the challenge of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum
… nation's first and largest immigration station Ellis Island not only processed millions of immigrants, but also functioned to develop mechanisms of control and procedures for inspecting thousands of immigrants on a daily basis. Ellis Island operated at the intersection of conflicting cultural …
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Georges Perec: autobiographie et trauma
… avec W ou le souvenir d'enfance mais aussi Ellis Island que l'originalité de l'autobiographie perecquienne est largement due au traumatisme que Georges Perec a subi dès sa plus jeune enfance : celle de la destruction de sa famille, juive, par les Nazis lors de la seconde guerre mondiale. …
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The Photographic Lens of Lewis Wickes Hine and the Spaces In Between Progressive, Documentary, and Artistic Photography
… visible. Evaluating Hine’s photography from Ellis Island, The Pittsburgh Survey and the National Child Labor Committee collections enables us to fully comprehend the ways Hine’s positionality drifted between photographic documentarian, reform photographer, and artist. This project analyzes …
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Strangers from within, strangers from without: negotiations and uses of space in African American and immigrant literatures and cultures, 1900s-1950s
… began: ""The average Pole or Italian arriving at Ellis Island does not realize that he is the deadly foe of the native Negro . . . It is a silent conflict on a gigantic scale."" While this statement illustrates only a limited view of the cross-cultural encounters that it describes, it is based on …
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Immigration as treated in early history textbooks 1789-1939: prelude to multiculturalism
… as a victim of crowded cities and the lines of Ellis Island.
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Uncountry
… that have recorded immigrants’ arrival in Ellis Island? What narratives emerge from collective remembrance and witness, and how does the engagement of diverse memory banks disrupt cohesive truth telling? The work resists closure and embraces the accumulation of multiple characters, …
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Transitory places : a water terminal and immigration station for East Boston
… of immigration. East Boston was second only to Ellis Island in the volume of immigrants processed as they entered the United States. The design has a transient space, a water terminal that will both facilitate movement to and from the city as well as recall the historical memory and experience …
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Europa som nation : En ny stil i nationalismens genre
… at its centre—and from the immigration museum at Ellis Island in New York City, which is a contrast both as a tourist destination and as a historical border control. In combination with discourses on the EU compared with discourses on different nations, these observations have been understood in …
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Counter-sites in 1980s New York Poetry-Videos
… reinscribing the sites of both the historical Ellis Island and Ginsberg’s own New York City apartment as reflective, museum spaces. Chapter Four considers two poetry-videos by Bob Holman, ‘Rapp it Up’ and ‘We Interrupt this Program’, which engage with the heterotopian spaces of the fairground …