Design plans to examine the history of the Ellis Island and restoration of the main immigrant arrival building. Still photo pictures of European immigrants at Ellis Island. Statue of Liberty. Set of buildings, interiors of hall and immigration depot and pictures photographed at Ellis Island before restoration. Engineers at construction site. Main building of Island and entrance to the building. Drawing and designs of museum and other parts of main building after restoration. Old pictures show immigrants enter the baggage room. Drawings of staircase to be built and pictures of registry room, galleries and administrative office and ticket office. Engineers examine blueprints.
View from a boat under way in New York Harbor, New York City. World Trade Center (still under final construction), and Lower Manhattan seen. Boat approaches Ellis Island. Ellis Island facilities and buildings seen. Old partially-sunken boat ruins and pier. Statue of Liberty in view.
A pilot seated in the wheelhouse on a craft approaching Ellis Island in United States. Men stand at a rail of a ferry boat. Buildings in the background. A tug boat and a barge underway in Hudson River. Policeman seated with two civilians on deck of ferry. The boat approaches Ellis Island. Hospital buildings in view. A sign reads 'cables crossing'. Detention building in view. Deckhand ties up ferry boat at slip. People going ashore at Ellis Island immigration center from ferry. A man carries goods on a cart.
Immigrants land at Ellis Island, New York on 24 July, 1903. William Myers double-deck ferry excursion ship loaded with immigrants arrives at the Ellis Island dock. Crewmen open the gangplank and immigrants walk down gangplank and up on to wharf with their luggage.
Scenes of New and New Jersey from New York harbor in vicinity of Ellis Island. At lower Manhattan, derricks and cranes can be seen and construction activity associated with the building of the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel. Among skyscrapers seen are the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building, both further uptown, in the background. Docks and piers are seen along the waterfront. B&O Railroad barge tied to a pier.
A film titled 'Emigrants (i.e. immigrants) landing at Ellis Island'. Immigrants on dock at the Ellis Island Immigration Station. Crowd of immigrant passengers with their luggage are guided by officers on arrival.
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