Interiors of Immigration Building at Ellis Island in New York, United States. District Director's Office showing Director Byron H. Uhl and Board members at table. Director Uhl talks over phone. Corridor with photographs of foreigners in native costumes. Corridor with door signs reading 'Deporting Division', 'Board of Special Inquiry - Hearings and Appeals', 'Witness Room', and 'Reception Hall'.
Kindergarten at Ellis Island in New York, United States, part of the Baggage and Dormitory building. Small class of foreign immigrant children reciting in English. American flag in the background. Children as they listen and recite after the teacher.
Chinese detention room at Immigration Building at Ellis Island in New York, United States. Chinese men at recreation. Young Chinese men play ping-pong, read, play Mah-Jong. Immigrants seated around the Great Hall (Registry Room) as they read and talk. A boy stands next to a woman as she knits.
Alien immigrants arrive at Ellis Island in New York by ferry. Ellis Island ferry coming into slip. Tug boats bring aliens to Immigration Building from SS Siboney. Aliens walk towards Immigration Building for processing to enter America. Doorway and American flag, entrance to administration building. Ellis Island ferry slip and life-ring 'Ellis Island' in foreground.
Penicillin treatment of wounded American soldiers in action during World War II.at Halloran General Hospital in Staten Island, New York. Doctor packs penicillin into deep buttock wound. Nurse injects substance into a patient's arm. Doctor packs thigh wound with a penicillin.
A 1946 re-enactment showing Dr. Albert Einstein's letter to U.S. President being typed on August 2, 1939, in Long Island, New York. A typist types Einstein's letter concerning atomic bomb to U.S. President Roosevelt. The letter references recent work by doctors Fermi and Szilard on producing a nuclear chain reaction, and its possible use as a weapon in an atomic bomb. He urges that the administration be watchful and ready for quick action on the subject.
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