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Christine Jorgensen, the first openly transgender person, arrives home in New York from Denmark, where she received hormone treatments and surgery, February 12, 1953. She said she was happy to be home. "What American woman wouldn't be?" she asked.
Photo: Associated Press
To ward off the spread of the dreaded typhus, New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Royal S. Copeland assigned several assistants to Ellis Island to examine immigrants. The discovery of a case of typhus aboard the steamship President Wilson, after the passengers had landed, spurred the Health Department to immediate action. Doctors were sent throughout the city to examine the passengers. The photograph shows Dr. Copeland's staff examining immigrants from Ellis Island, February 12, 1921.
Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America
