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A museum dedicated to this place features many photos taken by employee Augustus Frederick Sherman and contains the Bob Hope Memorial Library. Emma Goldman described this place as the “worst dump I ever stayed in” after being imprisoned here in 1919. Special goggles were developed to screen for trachoma at this location. Doctors would surreptitiously draw a chalk “X” on people here suspected of being (*) “feeble-minded.” Vincent J. Cannato’s book on this place busts the myth that officials here changed people’s surnames. 12 million (0[1])people passed through (10[1])this place between 1892 and 1954, more so than through Angel Island in San Francisco. For 10 points, name this place where immigrants were processed in New York. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Ellis Island [accept answers like the immigrant reception hall at Ellis Island or Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital; prompt on New York City or New Jersey]
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