Exhibit created by the National Committee for Mental Hygiene advocating for eugenically-informed immigration legislation, reproduced in Hand Book of the Mental Hygiene Movement and Exhibit: Illustrated (1913).
Special Board of Inquiry set up by immigration officials at Ellis Island to determine whether or not to deport specific immigrants. The Boards usually included psychiatrists, known as "Surgeons", in an advisory capacity.
Seated detainees at Ellis Island preparing to have a meal. Staged by psychiatrists for the purposes of a National Committee for Mental Hygiene slideshow.
Photograph of immigrants walking up the stairway into Ellis Island's Registry Hall. Image focuses on one man, facing the camera, with a hat, suit, and suitcase.
Photograph of Salmon family from photo album "Helen's Babies" (c. 1914). From left to right: Thomas Kingerlee Salmon, Helen Salmon, Helen Ashley Salmon (seated), Barbara Salmon, Thomas William Salmon, Russell Goldsmith Salmon, Edwin Ashley Salmon, Richard Salmon.
