The Traveling Tour

 

See the exhibit at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History from Dec. 17, 2011 – April 1, 2012


Forgotten Gateway: Coming to America Through Galveston Island premiered in the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Hall of Special Exhibitions at The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in February 2009. The exhibit will travel around the nation to other institutions through 2012.

 

The exhibit toured Moody Gardens, Galveston Island; the Houston Museum of Natural Science; and the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.

 

 


Image Credits

Credits For All Images

Exhibit & Tour Page Background


From Left to Right

  1. Image: Jewish Immigrants at the North German Lloyd wharf in Galveston, July 1, 1907.
    Credit: Courtesy UTSA’s Institute of Texan Culture, 073–0940, San Antonio. Courtesy Temple Bnai Israel.
  2. Image: Kitty Henderson.
    Credit: Courtesy UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures, 077–0101, San Antonio. Loaned by Lucile Foley.
  3. Image: Esrael Danzinger and his brother–in–law Samuel Kestenberg, ca. 1913.
    Credit: Courtesy Elaine Heller, Houston.
  4. Image: Max and Malka Siegel family.
    Credit: Courtesy Zella Sobel, Dallas.