pictureslook at these you can really absorb and , appreciate it. the last case brings in family life items, things that people would bring that they used in everyday life. cutlery, sewing machines, cameras. just a sampling of the tremendous amount of items that were actually donated to us. just one quick look in the back. some families gave us so much, some families gave us so much that cases were dedicated to those families specifically. we have about six or seven of these here and behind the photographs that are dedicated to specific families who literally gave us a trunk full of items and ask us to tell their story. and the importance to their family, culture, and backgrounds. the processing center opened in 1892. for the next 30 years or so, operated at full tilt as a mass processing center. somewhere in the 1920's at the beginning of the process of restricting immigration through very restrictive laws that brought the flow of people through here almost to a halt. world war i helped to do that, too. by 1924, a very restrictive quota law in conj