LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captures the impact of political rivalries on immigrants arriving at Ellis Island in 1950.
There are few more lasting emblems of immigration to the U.S. than Ellis Island —the portal through which some 12 million immigrants entered America between 1892 and 1954. By some estimates, a third of the population of the United States more than 100 million people can trace their ancestry to immigrants who first arrived at Ellis Island Near the end of that long run, in the fall of 1950, LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt went out to the island in Upper New York Bay to make some pictures.
The rough machinery of politics had brought confusion and delay to the processing of thousands of men, women and children looking to step on to American soil. But beyond chronicling the impact that political rivalries in Washington were having on real lives, Eisenstaedt’s pictures also encompass a more permanent truth about the immigrant’s journey, and these images mirror photographs made at Ellis Island decades before. Many of the pictures in this gallery were never published in LIFE, but some appeared in the Nov. 13, 195
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