LoginForgotten Ellis Island - Region 1 DVD
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Call Number: DVD JV6484 .F67 2009
A century ago, in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, one of the world's greatest public hospitals was built. Massive and modern, the hospital's twenty-two state-of-the-art buildings were crammed onto two small islands, man-made from the rock and dirt excavated during the building of the New York subway. As America's first line of defense against immigrant-borne disease, the hospital was where the germs of the world converged. The Ellis Island hospital was at once welcoming and foreboding a fateful crossroad for hundreds of thousands of hopeful immigrants. Those nursed to health were allowed
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Manufacturer: PBS
Release date: 10 March 2009
EAN: 0841887010252 UPC: 841887010252
Release date: 10 March 2009
EAN: 0841887010252 UPC: 841887010252
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