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Ellis Island's Famous Immigrants

By Barry , Moreno

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
ISBN
9781439620038, 9780738555331, 0738555339, 1439620032
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
27 MB (28308455 bytes)
Series
Images of America; Images of America: a history of American life in images and texts
Pages
(128 pages) : chiefly illustrations, portraits\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Celebrities--United States;Immigrants--United Stat

Description

Since 1776, millions of immigrants have landed at America's shores. To this day, their practical contributions are still felt in every field of endeavor, including agriculture, industry, and the service trades. But within the great immigrant waves there also came plucky and talented individualists, artists, and dreamers. Many of these exceptional folk went on to win worldly renown, and their names live on in history. Ellis Island's Famous Immigrants tells the story of some of the best known of these legendary characters and highlights their actual immigration experience at Ellis Island. Celebrities featured within its pages include such entrepreneurs as Max Factor, Charles Atlas, and "Chef Boyardee"; Hollywood icons Pola Negri, Bela Lugosi, and Bob Hope; spiritual figures Father Flanagan and Krishnamurti; authors Isaac Asimov and Kahlil Gibran; painters Arshile Gorky and Max Ernst; and sports figures Knute Rockne and Johnny Weissmuller.

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