One of Immigration Station’s most recognizable photographs is reexamined, revealing new information about the immigration experience on Angel Island.
Patients wrote on the hospital walls as early as 1910. Nearly a century later, the messages and drawings were at risk of being lost forever.
Angel Island’s former immigration hospital was at risk of collapse after sixty years of neglect until renovation efforts transformed the building into a museum.
The Angel Island Quarantine Station served as SF’s first line of defense against infectious disease. Learn how the site treated immigrants and what history still remains at the cove.
Read two surprising stories of “immigrant” kangaroos whose arrival in the United States in 1905 and 1906 led to their detention on Angel Island.
