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The National Geographic Magazine
From F. P. Sargent, Commissioner General of Immigration

United States Immigration Island, Ellis Island, New York Harbor

About three-fourths of our immigrants land at Ellis Island. During 1904 606,009 landed here, 60,000 at Boston, 56,000 at Baltimore, 19,500 at Philadelphia, and 9,000 at San Francisco.