Ellis Island main building with Manhattan skyline behind – Antique Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Ellis Island main building with Manhattan skyline behind, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Ellis Island main building with Manhattan skyline behind
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Ellis Island's main Registry Building, the red-brick and limestone hall where most arriving immigrants were processed, stands in this view with the Manhattan skyline rising behind it across the water. The island opened as a federal immigration station in 1892 and handled millions of arrivals before closing in 1954. The pairing of an immigrant gateway with the city it fed into makes the scene a compact statement about New York's role in American history, and this 1978 black-and-white view captures the site during the years when it was being rediscovered as a historic landmark.
| Original scan | 3,736 × 2,856 px · prints to 12 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 118024pu 9. KITCHEN & LAUNDRY BUILDING AND MAIN BUILDING, LOOKING NORTHEAST |
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