S-055 · passenger manifest

Emil Saalfeld passenger manifest aboard SS America, 1923

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration / Ancestry
Reference: New York passenger list, SS America, list 9, line 4; Ancestry collection 7488, record 4027106251, images NYT715_3242-0553 and NYT715_3242-0554
Date: January 14, 1923
People: Emil H. Saalfeld
Places: Atlanta, Georgia, New York, New York, Limburg an der Lahn, Hesse

Reliability and limits

Contemporary two-page federal passenger manifest, visually reviewed on Ancestry and downloaded in full on 29 August 2026. The name, age, Limburg birthplace, and father Ignatz establish the identity independently; S-054 corroborates a 1923 arrival and a 1923-1925 New York stay. Ambiguous handwriting is not expanded. Private access-copy SHA-256 values: page 1 4b5aa1d48bd810a9f8350d22b48f03b8f223f464b88752b354648964542545ea; page 2 dcb73bbd574d1d1a2a2d957cf43432a4f57bf148fe757eb491e54efa6ce5aa08.

Supported discoveries

Emil Saalfeld first arrived at New York on 14 January 1923 aboard SS America, initially bound for Atlanta, and returned to New York on 7 February 1926 aboard SS Albert Ballin after reporting a 1923-1925 stay in New York.

The 1923 manifest independently identifies Emil through his father Ignatz and Limburg birthplace and says he had not previously been in the United States. The 1926 manifest again identifies Limburg and explicitly reports prior United States residence in New York from 1923 to 1925. Together they establish two arrivals and explain why the 1938 naturalization file used the 1926 entry as his lawful permanent-residence arrival.

Confirmed

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