[New hospital building, Ellis Island; quarantine buildings on Swinburn Island and Hoffman Island] – Historic Photo Reproduction
![[New hospital building, Ellis Island; quarantine buildings on Swinburn Island and Hoffman Island], [1902] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/02/02acfc6b9e3b-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of [New hospital building, Ellis Island; quarantine buildings on Swinburn Island and Hoffman Island]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[New hospital building, Ellis Island; quarantine buildings on Swinburn Island and Hoffman Island]
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Here the new hospital building on Ellis Island appears alongside the quarantine stations on Swinburn and Hoffman islands in the lower bay, a view that shows the medical side of the immigration station as clearly as its processing halls. By 1902, federal authorities relied on this network of hospitals to isolate and treat arriving passengers who were ill, so that infectious cases could be separated before anyone reached the mainland. The picture was printed in *Quarantine sketches*, a booklet issued by the Maltine Company, a maker of malt-based tonics, which suggests how public interest in the island's medical work had grown by that time.
| Created / published | [1902] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Genre | Halftone photomechanical prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Quarantine sketches. The Maltine Company, [1902], [p. 9]. |
| Subjects | Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)--1900-1910. Hospitals--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1910. Quarantines--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,784 × 2,884 px · prints to 13 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-192468 |
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