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Aerial black-and-white view of Ellis Island immigration buildings – Vintage Photo Print

Aerial black-and-white view of Ellis Island immigration buildings — historic image
Aerial black-and-white view of Ellis Island immigration buildings. Historic image from the Ellis Island collection.

(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 image of Aerial black-and-white view of Ellis Island immigration buildings. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Aerial black-and-white view of Ellis Island immigration buildings

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Ellis Island's main immigration building, with its long brick façade and rows of tall windows, is the focus of this overhead view from a 1978 black-and-white series. Opened in 1892, the station processed millions of steerage passengers arriving at the Port of New York before the federal government closed it in 1954. Seen from above, the cluster of hall, dormitories and ferry landing shows how the island was laid out as a self-contained inspection complex in New York Harbor.

Original scan4,332 × 3,246 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
Reference118021pu 6. MAJOR IMMIGRATION FACILITIES, LOOKING EAST

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