STATUE OF LIBERTY Celebrating the Immigrant: An Administrative History

TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER PAGE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. THE STATUE OF LIBERTY: MONUMENT TO AN EXPANDING SET OF IDEALS

2. A PROJECT IS PROPOSED AND FINANCED

3. THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF IMMIGRATION TAKES SHAPE

4. THE FIRST DECADE OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF IMMIGRATION, 1972 - 1982

5. WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH ELLIS ISLAND? 1954 - 1965

6. THE YEARS OF NEGLECT AND DETERIORATION, 1965 - 1976

7. THE SEARCH FOR CONSENSUS AND FUNDING CONTINUES, 1976 - 1980

8. PREPARING FOR THE CENTENNIALS OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY AND ELLIS ISLAND

NOTES

NOTE ON SOURCES

APPENDICES

Cover photograph by John Veltri, courtesy of Newsweek Books.