Attachments Faces and Stories from America’s Gates
Bruce I. Bustard. With a message from David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States.
Published by GILES in association with the Foundation for the National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Release Date — June 2012 (UK and USA)
Dimensions — 96 pages, 254 x 178 mm, (8 ¼ x 10 in)
Illustrations — 100 colour
Hardback price — US$34.95/£20.00
ISBN — 978-1-907804-07-6
Book Details (pdf) — GILES-Attachments-Blad.pdf
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Press Release — Stories from America’s gates
News — ‘Ellis Island of the West’
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“a haunting reminder of the hopes and struggles of people seeking a promised land achingly in view” Jim Cullen, George Mason University’s History News Network
Accompanies the exhibition “Attachments: Faces and Stories from America’s Gates”, at the Lawrence F. O’Brien Gallery of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, June 15 - September 4, 2012
Tells the stories of 31 men, women, and children who found themselves at the gateways to America between 1880 and the end of World War II
Ties in with the new U.S. National Archives Genealogy Tool Kit published in April 2012
About the Book
Americans proudly proclaim the United States "a nation of immigrants". Millions who came to the US found freedom and opportunity, but America's immigrant story has always been made up of individuals whose histories differed according to who they were, where they came from, and where, when, and why they arrived. Attachments: Faces and Stories from America's Gates draws from the millions of immigration files in the U.S. National Archives, using original documents and photographs "attached" to government forms, to tell some of these unique tales.
