PICTURES OF MIGRATION ENTRY PORTS

           Boston

Boston’s Immigration Depot of 1920
Boston’s Immigration Depot of 1920 http://bostonlookingbackward.wordpress.com/tag/immigration-station/

 

              Philadelphia

Philadelphia's Pier 53/Washington Avenue Immigration Station, 1919 http://www.phillyhistory.org/blog/index.php/2013/03/a-philadelphia-quaker-and-fabric-row/
Philadelphia's Pier 53/Washington Avenue Immigration Station, 1919 http://www.phillyhistory.org/blog/index.php/2013/03/a-philadelphia-quaker-and-fabric-row/

 

Baltimore

http://marylandarchivist.blogspot.ch/2012/12/immigration-to-and-through-baltimore.html
http://marylandarchivist.blogspot.ch/2012/12/immigration-to-and-through-baltimore.html

In July, 1904, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s company’s magazine, Book of the Royal Blue documented immigrants arriving at "America’s Largest Immigrant Pier." This was the new Pier 9 at Locust Point. Among the first ships docking there was the Neckar of the North German Lloyd Line.
 

http://marylandarchivist.blogspot.ch/2012/12/immigration-to-and-through-baltimore.html
http://marylandarchivist.blogspot.ch/2012/12/immigration-to-and-through-baltimore.html

The North German Lloyd was the largest transport of immigrants to the United States in the decades prior to the First World War, bringing a fifth of those arriving at New York, and over 95% of disembarkees at Baltimore. Neckar entered regular transatlantic service in 1902, and up to the War brought 35 thousand steerage passengers to Baltimore and 68 thousand to New York. Overall only two other North German Lloyd ships, and 14 ships of other lines had higher westbound steerage totals to America during 1900-1914. (Voyage database)