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Caption: "Castle Garden" Source: Puck Date: June 14, 1882 Artist: Frederick Burr Opper Throughout the period of mass immigration, New York City was the principal point of immigrant disembarkation. For 35 years this was at Castle Garden on Manhattan. The prevalence there of various cheats and swindlers was one of principal arguments for the development of Ellis Island in 1892.
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