From the photos on the website you can get alot of different facial expressions by the way they took their photos. A mother a three daughter were "specially" dressed for their arriving. Must have thought it was a perfect life here?
Another couple men, were all dressed nicely, a tie, a dress shirt, dress pants, hair combed. They seemed to positive, that their life was going to be great.
As these people came into Ellis Island, they came into this beautiful place. The saw how perfect it was, and pictured that all of the Unites States of America would be this way. Perfect.
They were wrong. They experienced dirty cities, roads were filled with waste, etc.
Almost all were dressed really fancy or nicely at arrival.
