Immigrant boat – Antique Wall Art
(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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This historic photograph of Immigrant boat brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Immigrant boat
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Few details survive for this view, and the title, "Immigrant boat," comes from unverified notes written by the Bain News Service. The image is a glass negative, a format the agency used for news pictures in the early twentieth century, when steamships carried millions of European arrivals to New York Harbor. Those passengers were usually inspected at Ellis Island, which opened in 1892, so the scene likely belongs to the decades of heavy immigration that followed. The collection's documentation does not name the vessel, the date, or the photographer, so the picture is best read as a glimpse of that busy migration era.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,741 × 4,135 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-32468 |
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