1870 Castle Garden NY Immigration Report 1869 Pre Ellis Island Antique Original For Sale

Original 1870 Annual Report of the Commissioners of Emigration of the State of New York, for the year ending December 31, 1869.

New York: Douglas Taylor's Commercial Printing House, 1870.

An original 19th-century New York immigration document from the Castle Garden era, decades before Ellis Island opened.

The Commissioners of Emigration operated Castle Garden, New York City's principal immigrant reception center. The report covers the remarkable year of 1869, when 258,989 immigrants were recorded arriving in New York.

Contents include Castle Garden operations and statistics, Ward's Island, immigrant medical and surgical departments, temporary hospital, Labor Exchange, railroad operations, immigrant societies, financial information and extensive statistical material.

Main report runs through page 179, followed by the separately numbered index, ending at page vi.

Original printed wrapper is present. Handwritten period/early ownership name appears across the upper front cover.

Antique condition with age-related staining, toning, edge wear, tears and losses, particularly along the upper cover edge. Interior pages remain highly readable. Please see all photographs for exact condition.

A fascinating original primary-source document for collectors of American immigration history, New York City history, Castle Garden, genealogy and 19th-century Americana.

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