Statement Concerning Women Immigration Inspectors
3/17/1905
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In this document Margaret Ellis Dye, Superintendent of Legislation for the National Women's Temperence Union (WCTU), outlines why the position of female boarding inspectors should be permanently established at Ellis Island. Female boarding inspectors interviewed assisted female first and second class passengers as they arrived at Ellis Island. After a 3-month trial period, the program was ended. New positions as "boarding matrons" were instituted later in 1903 and the boarding matrons played an advisory role to the male inspectors. It comes from a file about "boarding matrons" at Ellis Island from 1903–1909.
This document was digitized by teachers in our Primarily Teaching 2014 Summer Workshop in Washington, D.C.
This document was digitized by teachers in our Primarily Teaching 2014 Summer Workshop in Washington, D.C.
This primary source comes from the Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
National Archives Identifier: 16476448
Full Citation: Statement Concerning Women Immigration Inspectors by Margaret Dye Ellis of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; 3/17/1905; 52541/041; Reports of Boarding Matrons, Ellis Island, 1903 - 1909; Subject and Policy Files, 1893 - 1957; Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Record Group 85; National Archives at Washington, D.C.. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/documents/document/statement-concerning-woman-immigration-inspectors, March 23, 2025]Rights: Public Domain, Free of Known Copyright Restrictions. Learn more on our privacy and legal page.
