Annie Moore

Description:

On January 1, 1892, the day of her fifteenth-birthday, Irish Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant of any nationality to set foot on American soil at the Immigrant Landing Station on Ellis Island.

subjects: Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.),  Fiction,  History,  Immigrants,  Irish Americans,  Juvenile fiction,  Teenage girls,  Working class,  Annie Moore (Fictitious character),  Irish,  Social conditions,  Irish fiction,  Children's fiction,  Irish americans, fiction,  Working class, fiction,  New york (n.y.), fiction

People: Annie Moore (b. 1877)

Places: New York (N.Y.)

Times: 1865-1898