9. "German Immigrants on Their Way to New Braunfels, Texas" (ca.1850).
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10. To process and assist the ever growing numbers of immigrants, New York opened the immigrant landing depot "Castle Garden" on the southern tip of Manhattan in 1855. Engraving in Fr. Kapp's Emigration and the Commissioners of Immigratio n of the State of New York, New York, 1870.
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11. Ellis Island, successor to Castle Garden as the leading U.S. reception center for immigrants (1892-1943), now part of the Statue of Libery National Monument.