The Ellis Island Workshop
Hidden behind the tourist-ridden Immigration Museum and unknown to most people is the fact that Ellis Island, in New York City's Harbor, contains a long-forgotten 22-building hospital complex, which during its busiest years, from 1902 to 1930, was one of the largest public health undertakings in United States history, and a place of heartbreak and hope, sickness and occasionally recovery. After a brilliant sunrise the clouds turned moody and dark, a perfect backdrop to this unsettling group of buildings.
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