Thank you for posting your question on History Hub! The National Archives at Philadelphia is the repository for the permanently valuable records of federal agencies and federal courts in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. We are also a repository for permanently valuable records of federal agencies and federal courts in New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
If you want to search for passenger lists of ships arriving at New York on November 18, 1955, you should be able to find them on NARA Microfilm Publication T715, Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957. Our facility in Philadelphia does not have a copy of this microfilm publication at present, and original paper records of New York passenger lists from this period no longer exist because the Immigration and Naturalization Service destroyed them after they were microfilmed. However, you can view the microfilm at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Digital copies of this microfilm are available on Ancestry.com, a NARA partner site.
You can also order copies of passenger arrival records from the National Archives by mail or online. For instructions on how to do so, and to read more about passenger arrival records in the National Archives, click here:
We invite you to continue the conversation with community members on History Hub, but should you have follow up questions for the staff at the National Archives at Philadelphia, please email us at philadelphia.archives@nara.gov so that we can assist you further.
We hope this helps with your research!
National Archives at Philadelphia [RRFP 25-09479-SC]
Thank you for posting your question on History Hub! The National Archives at Philadelphia is the repository for the permanently valuable records of federal agencies and federal courts in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. We are also a repository for permanently valuable records of federal agencies and federal courts in New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
If you want to search for passenger lists of ships arriving at New York on November 18, 1955, you should be able to find them on NARA Microfilm Publication T715, Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957. Our facility in Philadelphia does not have a copy of this microfilm publication at present, and original paper records of New York passenger lists from this period no longer exist because the Immigration and Naturalization Service destroyed them after they were microfilmed. However, you can view the microfilm at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Digital copies of this microfilm are available on Ancestry.com, a NARA partner site.
You can also order copies of passenger arrival records from the National Archives by mail or online. For instructions on how to do so, and to read more about passenger arrival records in the National Archives, click here:
We invite you to continue the conversation with community members on History Hub, but should you have follow up questions for the staff at the National Archives at Philadelphia, please email us at philadelphia.archives@nara.gov so that we can assist you further.
We hope this helps with your research!
National Archives at Philadelphia [RRFP 25-09479-SC]
