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Just beyond the money exchange was the exit from Ellis
Island.
Staff members referred to this spot as the kissing post because
of all the emotional reunions that were witnessed there. Two thirds
of the new Americans then boarded a ferry to New Jersey, where the
next leg of their American journey would begin. The remaining third
took the ferryboat to Manhattan to begin their new life in New York
City, only one mile away.
Photo: Library of Congress
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