Castro landing [1913 Jan. 10]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photo shows Cipriano Castro, ex-president of Venezuela, landing at Ellis Island. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008 and New York Times, Dec. 31, 1912)

José Cipriano Castro Ruiz was a Venezuelan politician and officer of the military who served as president from 1899 to 1908. He was the first man from the Venezuelan Andes to rule the country, and was the first of four military strongmen from the Andean state of Táchira to rule the country over the next 46 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipriano_Castro
Ellis Island is an island in New York Harbor, within the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York. Owned by the U.S. government, Ellis Island was once the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States. From 1892 to 1954, nearly 12 million immigrants arriving at the Port of New York and New Jersey were processed there; as many as two-fifths of Americans may be descended from these immigrants. It has been part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument since 1965 and is accessible to the public only by ferry. The north side of the island is a national museum of immigration, while the south side of the island, including the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, is open to the public through guided tours.

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