What year did the 1000 Marigeable Girls come into Ellis Island?

[lsufreak2263]

Please Answer Asap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[esnagel]

Based on this photo (http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq%28@field%28NUMBER+@band%28cph+3a21815% 29%29+@field%28COLLID+ggbain%29%29), I'm going to say 1907.

http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a20000/3a21000/3a21800/3a21815r.jpg

[popowich]

What is the story behind the original question?

-Raymond

[esnagel]

“GIRLS SEEK HUSBANDS” claimed a Washington Post headline on September 28, 1907. The previous day the steamer Baltic arrived in New York carrying “1,000 young women, all of marriageable age and inclination...on a grand husband hunt.” Hundreds of potential spouses were waiting at the pier when the ship docked, but not all of the women were eager to settle down immediately. “I have an offer to marry a Brooklyn policeman,” said Nora O’Brien of Limerick, Ireland, “but I think I’ll look around a bit first.”

Source
(http://www.historynet.com/magazines/american_history/4211226.html)

[THERESA]

HAHAHAA!! When I read the original question, I thought to myself, "what the heck is that?" I was also thinking that it looked a lot like the word marriageable but the spelling was so bad, I thought it had to be something else.